While I am sure Croydon Council would be heartened by James Greed's upbeat assessment of its tramlink (Letters, February 20), I suspect not making enough money to cover its operating expenses (let alone repaying the £100 million cost of construction) would not be described by most people as "going from strength to strength".

Auditors recently reported it did not have enough money to operate beyond this month, although I am sure someone will bail it out.

More worrying is the impact assessment study that seems to indicate it has been successful at getting people off buses and on to trams (69 per cent) but considerably less so at getting people out of cars and on to trams (16 per cent).

We need to be very careful about the clamour for trams in Brighton and Hove.

There are very few locations that could physically accommodate them and we could end up with a situation where they appear to have succeeded in getting people to transfer from one sustainable transport mode to another (thereby undermining the financial viability of both) but less successful at getting people to leave their cars at home.

They do, however, make a very positive contribution to destination marketing since tourists love trams, although I am not sure the city can afford a tramlink system on those grounds.

-Tony Mernagh, Brighton City Centre Business Forum