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Friday, 13 May 2016
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- People want to race across London to see how far they can get on Sadiq Khan's one-hour bus ticketA Labour councillor's light-hearted idea of holding a race to see who can get the furthest using Sadiq Khan's new bus-hopper ticket has been praised as "brilliant".
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- How Leeds transport schemes were stopped in their tracks Margaret Thatcher was in 10 Downing Street, Bros were riding high at the top of the charts and Howard Wilkinson’s reign as Leeds United manager was just beginning.
- ‘Not suitable for development’: Leeds trolleybus scheme is thrown outTHE SCRAPPING of the £250m Leeds trolleybus scheme triggered warnings the city had lost a decade on its rivals today.
- Gearing up for work at Leeds stationTHE wheels of Leeds’s buses have trundled across it more than seven million times in the last 20 years.
Yorkshire Post
- Opponents welcome demise of Leeds trolleybus projectTHE decision not to go ahead with the Leeds trolleybus was welcomed by critics of the scheme who had mounted a vocal campaign against the project.
- YP Comment: Stuck in slow lane – 30 years of transport failure in Leeds.THE Government’s decision to pull the plug on the controversial Leeds trolleybus scheme – Ministers had little choice after a planning inspector ruled there was “little evidence” that it would enhance public transport in the West Yorkshire city’s most deprived areas – is the culmination of three decades of political failure.
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