Why Leeds Bradford Airport plans still doomed to fail – Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Martin J Phillips, Tinshill Lane, Leeds.
Leeds Bradford Airport's future continues to prompt much discussion.Leeds Bradford Airport's future continues to prompt much discussion.
Leeds Bradford Airport's future continues to prompt much discussion.

IT DIDN’T come as a surprise when Leeds City Council 
voted to allow the expansion of Leeds Bradford Airport (The 
Yorkshire Post, February 12 
and 13).

This is the same council that wants to ban traffic in the city centre to cut pollution, yet they themselves are responsible for increasing the air pollution by 60 per cent or more by continuing to install speeds bumps, mickey-mouse roundabouts, traffic lights etc when other major cities are removing theirs.

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The council could also have reduced traffic in many areas if they had insisted on new train stations being part of any house building projects adjacent to a railway line.

Leeds Bradford Airport redevelopment plans have been backed by city councillors.Leeds Bradford Airport redevelopment plans have been backed by city councillors.
Leeds Bradford Airport redevelopment plans have been backed by city councillors.

The saddest thing is that the airport expansion will not deliver the passenger numbers anticipated.

The only way it could be successful is if there is some sort of direct rail link into the new terminal: for example, a tram-train service from Leeds with a light-rail link that cuts off from the Harrogate line somewhere north of Horsforth.

The present planned 
station on the Harrogate line east of the airport will be a white elephant. Many air travellers will still continue to pass through Leeds on trains that go directly into the airport in Manchester.

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My only hope is that the cost for building this pointless station on the Harrogate line is met by the owners of the
airport – and not by the taxpayer.

Inspiration of Captain Tom

From: Bob Swallow, Townhead Avenue, Settle.

I READ Jayne Dowle’s column (The Yorkshire Post, February 11) with interest. She was looking at ways to remember the great Captain Sir Tom Moore. I very much endorse the suggestion of a scholarship fund put forward initially by a reader of this paper.

I should be happy to contribute to this. Rather than some sort of physical memorial, how about remembering him through his local hospital at Bedford where sadly he passed on, but which he held in such high regard after the previous excellent treatment he received there? Perhaps ‘The Captain Sir Tom Moore Hospital Bedford’.

As a footnote a few weeks back, I had a nasty accident which left me in a deal of pain. I was feeling very sorry for myself until I read of Captain Sir Tom’s passing. This set me thinking. If someone of his age were able to inspire the folk of this country as he did, then surely I, at a mere 81 years, ought to be able to get sorted out. His catalyst has worked, my confidence is returning and I have set a date of end of March to get gardening and out and about on the hills around Settle.

Thank you Sir Tom, a great Yorkshire gentleman.

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