My husband and I used to use the Tramlink regularly to travel from Phipps Bridge to Wimbledon, but once school terms started we found we could not board a tram until after 8.30am because they were too full. At least two of the trains were impossible to board between 8.10am and 8.30am.

The majority of people using these busy trams are schoolchildren, but to my mind they must be travelling a long way to school if the stops they embark and disembark at are anything to go by. My walk to school in the 1980s and 1990s was only 15 minutes.

From the conversations I hear while squashed like a sardine on the tram this is a grievance shared by many full paying passengers. One passenger said he had written to the company that runs the trams, who just blamed it on the schoolchildren. The implication was that they push and shove and don't move down the carriages.

Perhaps Tramlink ought to up its frequency from every 10 minutes to every five minutes maximum between 8am and 9am and 5pm and 6pm.

But should we really add to this painfully frustrating problem by increasing the number of children who attend schools further away from where they live?

I'm sure it would also be better for child safety reasons if children attended schools nearer to home."