A Stray park?

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 5:37 pm

Tonight's YEP (beat Leodian to it perhaps) shows plans for a scenic route between Leeds Bridge and Leeds City College's new campus adjacent to (or does it include) the former Alf Cooke building.http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... -5539334It will make a change from the piles od bricks/rubble that currently adorn the route and supposedly will only take 5 months.I take it the "prime city centre site" isn't so prime, especially as there is a recently installed car park on the former Tetley site at the bridge end of Crown Point Road.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 6:39 pm

Hiya tyke bhoyAn Hunslet Stray (well OK a pathway) inspired by the Harrogate Stray does sound grandiose! It's interesting that the original report is in the YEP print edition of March 29 so I wonder if its appearance today in the online YEP may be an indication that the YEP intends to hold back on what it puts in its online site so that its print edition may not suffer, though I think the continuing decline of that edition is inevitable.PS. Beating me is not difficult nowadays! The ease at which many people pass me when I'm walking makes me think I must be going backwards!

Post by **tyke bhoy** » Tue 02 Apr, 2013 7:29 pm

So you could have beaten me to it . My attention was brought to it by a tweet today from "Leeds City Centre" (yes it does have a twitter account).Yep very grandiose given that unless they clear up the vacant brown field sites the view off the stray won't be very pretty.As I understand it a couple of the papers announced that they will introduce a charge soon for reading on average more than 1 online article per weekday (24 per month). That's more likely to be a successful business model than witholding news for several days. Because of alternatives the former isn't going to be brilliant but who wants yesterdays fish and chip wrapping served up online.