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Why is it that planning takes ten times longer and costs are ten times higher for almost any imaginative project to come to completion (assuming it’s not cancelled halfway through)?

Would be nice is we can get just a little help in the southwest Bristol as transport is hardly a thing let alone anything near mass transit

had an idea for a light rail line from Roundhay to Shipley. It would run on roads in the Leeds city centre, along Bridggate from Roundhay, then would go through the undercroft of Leeds station (inspired by Manchester Piccadilly), then would use an abandoned viaduct through Holbeck than convert the existing line to Bradford and add more stations and then in Bradford it would then connect the two Bradford stations and convert that spur to Shipley station (which would become an interchange).

The fact that it took so long to connect the two lines seems to me, somehow being, unfortunate planning ... sts

Visiting there or not, knowing that there is a major city without proper transport system for its size is always painful. I hope the people in Leeds will get a better system.

Everyone knows that buses are important, however, an improved rail system is urgently required. This includes the expansion of the electrified Wharfedale and the heavy rail metro and the promised light rail system, to match London, e.g., the Docklands Light Railway.

Im from bradford and know the route well but its now obliterated by hospitals schools and residential housing

The streets in Leeds and Bradford are too narrow for a tram, so will the Combined Authority proceed with an automated metro to match London, i.e., the DLR? Well well see.

Visited family in W Yorks recently and noted a lot of cycle infastructure as I passed on the bus. To be honest, it looks a mess. Where I live we have shared pedestrian and cycle routes that work fine, yet in Leeds they seem to need to separate these through the city, and no one is using either. The bus I take doesn't use the guided bus lanes either, so not sure about those either. If you're having a dedicated bus lane, why go the expense of make it guided? (OK that's money spent some 25 plus yrs ago, but still!) x

There seems to be a lot of private companies that live off the public purse these days. I never understand why Governments seem to think its cheaper for a private company to do something and make a profit than doing it themselves at cost. Thanks for the film. X

So long as there is no rise in Council Tax, it should be okay.

Leeds Night bus service is abysmal. Just 1 Night bus that being the N1 which serves the City Center and Otley Road. They should initiate a bus Service for every major roads and direction Kirkstall,Dewsbury,York Road,Stanningley,Hunslet etc

Its disgusting how luch the mayor gets

An interesting idea, would like to see how this plays out

He has risen from the dead!

Metrolink is the biggest tram network in the UK

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Alringham to Piccadilly (and onward to Hazel Grove) and Bury to Victoria weren't freight lines they were useful and often busy EMU commuter lines, in the case of the Bury line in dire need of upgrading. The Metrolink conversion scheme just happened to offer a convenient way to raise the funds needed to bring both up to light rail standard.

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First bus had to draught in diesel buses from leeds and bradford today because yorks all electric buses failed due to a power cut in york last night.😂😂😂😂😂

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2:00 **The Eccles line opened up to Broadway in 1999 and to Eccles in 2000

Unfortunately LCC and metro haven't got a clue, I agree start small and build upon it in the future, after all something is better than nothing. The council had enough money to build a small trolleybus system from stourton park and ride to the city centre via Leeds dock but unfortunately they wanted the full shabam and lost out

no new routes but apparently in 2025 the trams will be handed over to another company though

Metros and trams are suited for shorter journeys in urban areas. I don't think they're ideal for inter-urban or regional routes. That's better served by regular trains.

If you ever want to use the LUAS, do NOT use it at rush hour, kinda an obvious thing with transport but still, you will packed like sardines!

My granddad is from Leeds and we now live in Melbourne. Trams are definitely the way. The state of Leeds is shameful and my family will not be returning.

Are the politicians of all stripes just winding up the population to think they will be getting a mass transit system?

While the Government has been talking about a mass transit system, other countries have built a huge underground system, e.g., Hong Kong MTR.

Has West Yorkshire got the financial support of government and seconded experts from Transport from London to implement a mass transit system?

How has the delay in West Yorkshire getting a mass transit deprived the region of government funds over the last 30 years compared with other regions, e.g., Greater Manchester?

As far as the promised West Yorkshire mass transit is concerned the various politicians are absolutely telling porkies.

West Yorkshire needs a tram train system to match Transport for Wales, e.g., in the valleys and Cardiff

It is interesting that nothing has actually happened in West Yorkshire despite lots of promises!

This is an excellent proposal for a tram train network to match the Cardiff tram train system. However, the Combined Authority needs to appoint the consultants to deliver the tram trains equivalent to the Stadler Class 398 tram trains currently being delivered to Transport for Wales, i.e., Cardiff Region.

I have been looking into the Edinburgh tram system because I may need to use Edinburgh Airport as an alternative to Manchester. It's unfortunate they couldn't integrate the tram line into Edinburgh train station although in my case I can use Haymarket train station which is much closer to a tram stop.

They have now ordered eCitaros for keighley

I am thinking whether it was wrong for Leeds to get the old double deck tram retired. As I see Hong Kong, a bigger population city, is still using the double deck tram, the advantage is the station can be shorter and simple. The construction, operation and maintenance cost can be lower. In Hong Kong, the tram company makes the tram fee as low as 30p a ride because they can create other income from the advertisement on the tram, tourist tram, tram rent out for wedding event. As long as the trams do not go underground, a change from double deck to single deck is meaningless. They are just running same like double deck bus, a supplement of bus in the busy route and area.😂😂😂

Personally believe Transdev is the best operator in Yorkshire.

Loved going on both the traditional & new trams when I came here last year

can you please do a longer vid on this

Metrolink is a very stupid name.

Providing retrospective but an system similar to the tyme and wear metro might of been better suited

I’ve heard they are coming to keighley bus company in a few months

An amazing background

Such a shame that TransPennine Express has been struggling ever since Covid-19 came and went and there are talks about Northern to take over TransPennine Express or to merge with TransPennine Express and to keep operating train services in the North of England. It seems that the North of England is having a failed railway system than the south. At least HS2 is to provide better services for the North of England and improve better rail services with plans for a new high speed rail line to go from Liverpool Lime Street to Hull and York which would make it lot quicker.

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'Are railways neccessary?' Depends on to whom who you speak. In the 60s, government decided they were obsolete and should be replaced by roads which were 'free'. Plenty of room - just concrete the shires over. Job done - tarmac is 'free' too. And road deaths (staggeringly high back then). And pollution. And noise. And property damage, especially from dangerous heavy lorries which grew much heavier over the years. All 'free'. But railways had to 'pay their way'. Buy one, but the other one's 'free'. Which one would you choose? Hmm... tricky....