When I read your line...
...my first thought was the passenger - they should be the ones getting the reward.
Don't hold your breath
I am not holding my breath.
Where are these places you speak of?
Or places where one team have put in raised kerbs to assist with level boarding onto buses, only for another team to come along and install a bus shelter with a solid panel blocking that raised kerb!
In the case of the Otley Road it was planned to have the light rail dip on and off the road at strategic points.
Yes, I do believe it was to use all that land at the side of Headingley Lane and Otley Road from Woodhouse Moor via the Ridge through to Far Headingley before using Otley Road again. It would have meant the demolition of woodland and properties but it's needed. Hinsley Hall I believe would have been one of the stops used for Headingley stadium as it's a short walk from it's entrance to the stadium.
In which case the land could be used for a bus lane.
I was wondering where these places are too?
Excuse my scepticism but they haven't been able to get the trams for the first two lines to from Leeds to Bradford and to St James and White Rose built. The idea of demolishing houses on the Headingley Road won't be happening in my lifetime.
There has to be. Non-guided buses cannot use the guideway, and to have the guided buses going off and back on again at each stop would make the journey so slow as to be useless.
That’s more due to Whitehall rules rather than any inaction on the part of WYCA or Leeds council. Local government administrations in Leeds, in various forms, have made three attempts in the last two decades to get trams or trolleybuses built in Leeds including the current mass transit proposal. The previous two projects were both killed off, at quite an advanced stage, by the UK government. In fact the supertram of the early 2000s was cancelled right as construction was about to start, with preparatory work having already commenced.
I know why, when and how the funding was cancelled; such projects always need the majority of funding to come from central government.
Hopefully the new Weaver Network administration will be more realistic if and when they plan any light rail schemes or similar.
These comments are dated two years ago - ie before Tranche 3 took place which was 50% of the network.
Are they worse than they were before the Bee Network?
And yet it still stands none of them expect buses to magically run on time.
You don't have to go to the Netherlands to see a more modern, non guided example - the South East Hampshire busway between Fareham and Gosport doesn't have guides. I'd recommend you have a look. In fact, you could visit Runcorn Busway - built in the 1970s and non-guided but perhaps that doesn't fit with a UK is rubbish/Europe is better narrative.
I also disagree that most of the dissenting comments were from enthusiasts or that the positives were from average folks too.
T1 is notably better, T2 is worse and T3 is about on par. Not surprisingly, once the schools went back, congestion increased and punctuality suffered.
The current version of light rail, a line from Leeds to Bradford was already paused only last year by Rachel Reeves
Why are we focussing on one week’s data (if indeed this is still on topic)? Surely periodic data is more representative? https://tfgm.com/ways-to-travel/buspunctuality-report-23-august-19-september
They do physically stop people entering, which stops those with fake number plates or who are otherwise difficult to track down.
And more importantly, shows the comparison from before Bee.
Quite a bit more work took place throughout South Leeds in preparation for the tram, Hunslet Road was widened between Church Street and South Accommodation Road, and Belle Isle Road had major road layout changes from the motorway bridge all the way through to the Ring Road.
