Hypocrisy of Leeds Council’s ‘planes first’ approach to transport – Yorkshire Post Letters

THE Connecting Leeds Transport Strategy talks about “mixed modes of transport,” “delivering a mass transit system” and “increasing modal split”.

These are all left over expressions from New Generation Transport, the 
failed trolleybus scheme, which itself succeeded a failed tram scheme.

I guess it’s hard for people 
who worked on the previous schemes to drop the old buzz words.

But with a history of total failure, why is the council trying yet again to build a mass transit system? Haven’t they got 
better things they could be doing?

For example, how about 
giving us a decent electric bus system? If they can’t even do that, how can they possibly 
hope to deliver a mass transit system?

Perhaps delivering a decent bus system is too dull a task 
for a council which would 
rather be building new mass transit infrastructure on unspoilt green space, or expanding the airport, a decision which invites derision and makes a complete mockery of the council’s other transport aims.

Who could ever take Leeds City Council seriously after 
such a blatantly hypocritical decision?

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