In an interview broadcast on the 10th March on Radio Aire, Councillor Richard Lewis, the head of Highways said about the trolleybus scheme: “One of the problems there’s been for Headingley is it has always wanted to say “No” to whatever ideas have come along so that Headingley Bypass – no we don’t want it; […]
Since 2008, the National Transit Database of the Federal Transit Administration has included extremely detailed urban passenger transport accident statistics.1 The table below has been produced using data extracted from the National Transit Database: Safety and Security Time Series Data. 2 National Transit Database: Safety & Security Time Series Data . . The table shows […]
In a sensational development, the chair of Metro, Councillor James Lewis has revealed that Labour councillors were whipped to support the trolleybus in the council votes that took place on the 1st July and 13th November 2013. Even though many Labour councillors are known to oppose the scheme, not one voted against it in the […]
Robert Goodwill on a fact finding mission to Rio de Janeiro (November 2013) During a parliamentary debate on the 11th March 2008, opposition MP Robert Goodwill (now Transport Minister Robert Goodwill) said: Leeds is now considering a trolley bus scheme — a second best scheme — which will share the same infrastructure as the cars […]
Robert Goodwill being interviewed this morning on ITV Transport Minister Robert Goodwill gave evidence today to the House of Commons Transport Committee about the efforts the government is making to lessen the dangers to cyclists. I was in Leeds on Monday cycling around the streets looking at some of the good things and bad things. […]
Robert Goodwill in Leeds with Living Streets chief executive Robert Armstrong (2 December 2013) Transport Minister Robert Goodwill is hosting a two-day conference on cycling at the Crown Plaza hotel in Leeds. The event is called the Cycling Networks Fit for Growth Confernce and is being attended by 115 people including New York’s Department of […]
It was announced yesterday that there is to be a public inquiry into the the trolleybus proposals. The full story can be read in today’s Yorkshire Evening Post.
. bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbPhoto courtesy of Yorkshire Post Newspapers . It was reported in today’s Yorkshire Evening Post that arboriculturalist Sam Turner has calculated the value of trees to be cut down along the A660 at £14 million. In arriving at the figure, Mr Turner has used the CAVAT methodology which values trees based on the area […]
