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Post by shelf81 on Apr 8, 2024 19:02:07 GMT 1
What I can't understand about the Elland Road routing is that it isn't exactly a very busy corridor. Outside of the Park and Ride site, people visiting the LUFC shop, and people at the White Rose Centre: who exactly is using it? If trams were routed down Dewsbury Road to the White Rose Centre, then continued into the middle of Morley for example, it would make sense. A very densely populated corridor with a large out-of-town shopping complex at the bottom of it, and a reasonably large town: Morley. Even then though, what would it be achieving that buses don't already achieve? Faster journey times? Create an express route: Leeds - Dewsbury Road - White Rose Centre - Morley. I really am all for a mass transit scheme in West Yorkshire, but the more I analyse it, the more I'm struggling to imagine where trams would work. The only place I could if think would be Leeds - Airport, but I can't work out the routing of it. Running it along the A65 would be great, but when you get to the bottleneck at Kirsktall and then Horsforth Roundabout: where do the trams go? I Would hope Leeds to White Rose would be only the start, as alongside the spur to Morley you mentioned there's also potential for future expansion to Tingley (ideally with a large P&R) & Shaw Cross, with spurs then onto either Spen Valley,Osset or Dewsbury, Mirfield & Huddersfield what would allow extra capacity alongside the overcrowded railway, be quicker than the likes of 202/3 & would hopefully achieve model shift from cars, what trams have been proven to do much better than buses.
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Post by yorkslad on Apr 8, 2024 21:26:45 GMT 1
Funny that, I'm reading West, North and EAST Yorkshire, which one of us needs Specsavers lol Probably me, I have realised it doesn't say South Yorkshire but to be fair Sheffield used to be part of West Yorkshire so it would be nice to have a thread for trams. No, it wasn't. Most of South and West Yorkshire (and bits of North Yorkshire) used to be part of the West Riding until... 50 years, 1 week and 1 day ago (as I write).
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Post by pricel on Apr 8, 2024 22:05:05 GMT 1
Probably me, I have realised it doesn't say South Yorkshire but to be fair Sheffield used to be part of West Yorkshire so it would be nice to have a thread for trams. No, it wasn't. Most of South and West Yorkshire (and bits of North Yorkshire) used to be part of the West Riding until... 50 years, 1 week and 1 day ago (as I write). Apologies, that's what I meant, West Yorkshire basically is West Ryding today, even Goole used to be part of it.
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