£1bn regional fund for transport

patter · Post by **patter** » Wed 31 Aug, 2011 1:37 pm

Five West Yorkshire councils have been meeting behind closed doors in a bid to establish a £1 billion fund for major transport schemes in the region. Reported in the Telegraph & Argus, can't find it on the YEP yet.http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/n ... ort/here's hoping its not a £1bn donation to first shareholders

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Wed 31 Aug, 2011 8:35 pm

Nice idea, but I wonder how keen the burghers of Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Calderdale will be when Metro want to spend all the money on another incarnation of the Monorail / NotSoSupertram / Electrobus* in Leeds which seems to be all they are concerned with.Or perhaps they plan to replace all the verges in the county with mis-guided bus lanes in order to ensure their chums at First keep their monopoly on services...* - Electrobus - not quite a tram, in fact more like a bendy bus with the powertrain from a dodgem car. The name is my idea, but see how long it takes Metro (or the YEP) to start passing it off as their own now I've mentioned it....

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Wed 31 Aug, 2011 10:26 pm

raveydavey wrote: * - Electrobus - not quite a tram, in fact more like a bendy bus with the powertrain from a dodgem car. The name is my idea, but see how long it takes Metro (or the YEP) to start passing it off as their own now I've mentioned it....