There are times in life when what someone does not say to you is more telling than what they actually do say.

In the past couple of years there was much talk of reviving the Merseytram scheme.

You don't hear much about it now, but in 2008 and 2009 there was a lot of chatter about it. Ruth Kelly was said to be about to sign off on the scheme before her resignation in 2008.

Today we've reported how Southampton has been accused of hypocrisy by standing in the way of Liverpool's cruise ambitions after £50m was spent to improve motorway access to their port.

Southampton council leader Royston Smith has today responded to the story.

Here is his statement:

The new Mersey Gateway bridge is probably the most important (and only) mayor transport scheme in the region at the moment.

As reported today, the design of the bridge is going back to planning as £30m of costs had to be stripped out of the scheme.

Can you spot the difference? The top picture is the new design.

There is one set of figures which stands out for me from today's story about a new £200m road through the Rimrose Valley to the Port of Liverpool being back on the agenda.

At present 350 lorries enter or leave the port every hour, and 70% use the Dunnings Bridge Road route.

By 2030 that figure is set to more than double to 800 HGVs each hour.

Just think about that for a moment, 800 lorries an hour equals 13 every minute - or more than one every 10 seconds.

John Spriggs, Mark Dowd, David Spriggs, Bart Schmeink, Merseyrail managing director, and Steve Rotherham, Liverpool Walton MP.

A Merseyrail train has been named in memory of one of Liverpool's political legends.

Jack Spriggs, a former Liverpool Lord Mayor was Merseytravel vice-chairman from 2005 until his death in December 2009.

In 1972 Jack Spriggs hit the national headlines when, as a shop steward, he led the famous Fisher Bendix workers sit-in which lasted nine weeks and resulted in saving the plant from closure.

With a densely populated country like England it will never be easy to come to a decision about a significant expansion to the country's transport infrastructure, especially when such a decision involves crossing from one part of the country to the other.

That said just because a choice is hard and opposition is loud, doesn't mean that such a decision shouldn't be made.

And with High Speed 2 we have both, as well as emotions running high on either side of the argument.

The No lobby with cries of; cost and environment, the Yes lobby with cries of; growth, jobs and connectivity, added to that, in the North, there is a real necessity to expand private enterprise and to balance our economy, so moving away from an over-dependence on the public sector.

Spare a thought for transport authority Merseytravel Liberal Democrat leader Andrew Makinson.

Yesterday he failed to get the Labour controlled authority to change its rules so that members can only receive one 'special responsibility allowance'.

Instead the status quo of allowing members to have multiple allowances will continue.

He is now in for an awkard few days as he will be attending the LGA conference in Birmingham along with Merseytravel chairman Mark Dowd and other Labour councillors.

"We will be catching the train, but I will be keeping well away from the platform edge," he quips.

The days of three hour train journeys to London are happily well behind us.

We can now zip along to the capital in two hours and eight minutes.

This is thanks in part to the massively expensive £8bn West Coast Main Line and Virgin's tilting Pendolino trains that shoot down the rails at 125mph.

DALE Street is the political powerhouse of the city, with the Town Hall at one end and Municipal Buildings at the other.

Like Blues music, politics in Liverpool can often be full of surprises, but it is never dull. Indeed reporting politics in Liverpool is a fascinating job.

Hopefully this blog will help shed some more light on the comings and goings in the corridors of power (not just in Liverpool, but also across the region).

And finally, both council leader Warren Bradley and the Labour opposition leader Joe Anderson are Evertonians.