There were billboards all over Leeds today advertising a Yorkshire Evening Post article about yesterday’s Human Placard Protest along the A660. You can read the story that was exciting so much interest in today’s online edition of the paper.
During the morning and evening rush hour today, groups of people stood along the A660 from the university to the fields near Bodington Hall. They were holding placards advising passing motorists and bus passengers of the consequences of the trolleybus scheme, should it go ahead.
At a meeting of the full council on the 1st July, councillors debated the trolleybus scheme and voted on whether to support an application for a Transport and Works Act Order to enable the trolleybus scheme to proceed. Here is a verbatim report of the debate. And here is a breakdown of how our councillors […]
Trolleybus protestors were in Dortmund Square on Saturday to talk to people about the proposed trolleybus scheme. Members of Metro’s NGT team were also present on the Square.
In a recent letter to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Peter Connolly compared those who oppose the trolleybus to the Taliban. He accuses us of spreading half-truths, while he accepts as Gospel truth everything that is said by NGT. Yet, transport experts, including a retired professor from the internationally-recognised University of Leeds Institute of Transport Studies, […]
