The Tyne & Wear Metro was designed by Jack The Force-It Apprentice. He came up with the idea after crashing model trains together on his model railway set. After realising the potential for an unreliable, smelly, dangerous and suicidal way of transporting people from A to B in tin cans, they set to work building it using concrete and some left-over fridges. However, in 2008, it still managed to win the Ultimate Utter Rubbish Awaard For being the cleanliest public transport service, beating off Bus companies like Stagecoach and Poo On The Tyne