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This is correct, see my post from nearly two years ago (!) on the main TRU thread

The location of the new station has been lobbied for by Bradford Council. No-one else seems to think it's a worthwhile tradeoff between the big negative of moving the station further from the city centre vs getting a through station which has the benefits of making through trains slightly faster...

City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement, round 2 (round 1 is 2022-2027). It's basically the main transport funding pot from central government given to all combined authorities, in this case West England CA. A large proportion is then doled out to the respective local authorities.

Yes, LPTIP (Leeds Public Transport Investment Programme, which delivered the city centre works on the Headrow, Meadow Lane, and the Corn Exchange) was the silver lining of the DfT blocking the trolleybus. The WYCA report mentioned in post 45 says that £5m of the total £26.5m came from LPTIP

The Nottingham workplace parking levy (WPL) is still the only one in the world except for 3 in Australia. Leeds city council, not wyca who are leading on mass transit despite this thread title, are working up a WPL. There was some press coverage last month and some of this revenue would go...

Some plans for Thorpe Park station have been published on Leeds City Council's North and East Plans Panel. The relevant slides are page 36-50 in the Presentation Slides, the most interesting one is on page 42 which shows how Network Rail are proposing to future-proof for 4-tracking by...

There was a strong streer from the mayor that the first Mass Transit line would be cross-boundary ie not all in Leeds

Well, WYCA (West Yorkshire Combined Authority) is in the process of setting up a Mass Transit directorate, and it's already burning through money allocated from the IRP (Integrated Rail Plan) to MT development on feasibility studies for 4 routes, 3 of which are cross-district as per the...