Indeed

The blog yesterday about the possible new tram system certainly stirred a few comments.  And it's becoming clear that the anti camp has already made the assumption that we don't need trams, that the often dirty, pollution-spewing buses do the job well enough.  Which they do, providing you're a big fan of pneumonia and various other respiratory diseases.

Of course, it's also clear that CCBC also has its own agenda, being determined to collar any funds the regeneration strategy might produce for its own ends - which translate to making Colwyn Bay a giant office block.  That's fine, assuming Colwyn residents don't mind if their community becomes relegated to the 'administration' rung of the towns' index for Wales, or they don't mind about the increasing pollution, their childrens' health and the simple fact that the town's economy will devolve into an 'office-supply' culture, where the visitor will be treated with a quaint insouciance and everything will be oriented to supplying the 9 - 5 employee.  

Of course, the trams would be a gamble. As has been every decent town initiative for the past 100 years in the UK. But what seems clear is that the tram initiative was greeted with unalloyed delight when the public were first consulted and now the apparent wishes of the people are being ignored by CCBC's intention to transform Colwyn Bay into a large office  and their desire to grab the cash for their own agenda.  What's really happening here?