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That's why it's important to have public sector/client organisations that have sufficient time and knowledge to dedicate to a project. I've certainly experienced issues with public sector clients not having the knowledge or skills to provide guidance on a project. That inevitably leads to...

To answer the title, probably not that much. I getting the feeling sometimes that a lot of people believe a large part of infrastructure is paid to consultancies but its a tiny cost in reality. New stations generally cost £20 million+ but most of that is going to be construction costs and...

Yes it would be around 1km walking distance to the entrance of the current Interchange station on Bridge Street.

All the information points to St James Market currently though. I'm going to step away from being as deeply involved now because it's clear there's a million different ideas about what this station is and we simply don't know that currently. If the location was the blue area then I'd certainly...

That's not really fares is it, its journey purpose. It frees up space for business pax on the faster Dewsbury route. Anyway there's people being paid to produce the business case. I'll leave it to them to see what they come up with.

It wouldn't surprise me if one was introduced eventually via the Ordsall Chord. It all requires more infrastructure in Manchester and diverting the TPE airport services away from the Ordsall Chord and on to the Manchester to Liverpool railway. I think similarly to moving the Bradford station...

I only know what was being considered a few years ago but it was either 2 or 4 trains per hour between Manchester and Leeds via Bradford. This was when HS2 was happening so it included potential extensions to Birmingham and/or Liverpool and potentially Hull. That wasn't to say that it couldn't...

Bradford is certainly more deprived than the wider Stockport area and I agree the rail connectivity helps but a new station is about improving connectivity. I disagree that Stockport hasn't had its problems because I've experienced how dead the town centre was a decade ago and some of the...

Definitely but capacity enhancements or a new station in Bradford is needed to accommodate the additional services.

You don't know that. I don't know that. We simply don't have access to where people are coming from. 1) Improve Manchester and Leeds capacity 2) Have better accelerating battery units would reduce speed differential between fast and slow services. 3) I'd still look at building a line to...

I was more talking about the geographical relationship between the station and town centre which would be very similar to a proposed new Bradford site. Stockport isn't quite as deprived as Bradford but 10-15 years ago it was a pretty grim town centre. Its certainly reinveted itself because of...

I agree it'd be interesting to see if interchange could be made to work for an increase in services. My gut feeling is that once costs and benefits have been considered, a through station is going to come out better but I'm one man who's very aware there's a lot he doesn't have expertise in. I...

I can't remember where I read it now, but I did laugh at him being connected to the area because he delivered takeaways there while at university. Why try to play up a guys local links if they're so tenuous, it just looks silly. My wife said she might run because her car broke down on the M67...

Why all? If you're coming from the south/east then clearly its a shorter distance/journey time. I've said before that if the station waits until there is capacity, there's a real chance that Interchange will just be left to rot because there's little point spending money on a station that has...

I completely agree that at the moment the infrastructure is not there but it will obviously be included as part of the station. It may even get private funding from the proposed development. I don't think it requires the closure the A650. The height differences makes a bridge or pedestrian...

Fares have very little to do with infrastructure business cases. St James Market isn't 1km away from most of Bradford City Centre. Straight-line distances from the centre of St James Market: Entrance of Interchange - 477m Centre of the Broadway - 746m Entrance of Forster Square - 1080m...

TPE already has a tender out for 195m trains which are as long as the infrastructure will realistically accommodate. So they are being lengthened first. The Bradford services can be cheaper to encourage use. People choose to use northern via Bradford to get to Leeds over TPE due to price. I've...

No because all Halifax travellers receive the benefits. Only Bradford travellers walking to the city centre will be disadvantaged. The business case will provide more information on which passenger number is greater. They likely will be lengthened first. I hate the argument we can't start...

Interchange is the top 10 Of course in 7 years time modern rollingstock with better acceleration will be providing all services which will reduce the speed differential between fast and stopping services on Calder Valley line. Manchester is probably going to be the main constraint on capacity...

I agree with this position. Its crazy to think we've reached peak electrification on the network. There's plenty of lines that either have very heavy usage (e.g. Dore-Sheffield-Swinton), high speeds (e.g. Birmingham to Derby) or heavy freight use and aren't electrified. The Calder Valley is...