Leeds/West Yorkshire transit system

[NorthKent1989]

Is Leeds; the largest urban area in Europe without a transit system about to finally get one?

West Yorkshire 'transformational' mass transit plan revealed

The mass transit scheme "will benefit generations to come", West Yorkshire Combined Authority says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[eastwestdivide]

The story is dated 27 January 2021

…The project will rely on securing central funds, with a business case due to be submitted to government in 2022…

 

[javelin]

Questions To Which The Answer Is No.

 

[Ken H]

Is Leeds; the largest urban area in Europe without a transit system about to finally get one?

West Yorkshire 'transformational' mass transit plan revealed

The mass transit scheme "will benefit generations to come", West Yorkshire Combined Authority says.

www.bbc.co.uk

No. Central government unlikely to fund it.

 

[Arkeeos]

Its probably going to be an extremely unambitious 2 line tram system. I mean they put Buses on the initial report, I'm not expecting much.

 

[syorksdeano]

The amount of times they have planned things like this for them to never happen, if you believe that this will happen you must be smoking the same stuff these so called planners are

 

[Andyh82]

The proposals are so ridiculously lavish it’s clearly unlikely ever to happen

I’m surprised they didn’t specify a monorail or an underground railway