Thursday 3rd July 2025 You’d think in an age when travel between many urban centres is booming, not least by passengers pursuing leisure activities, a bus service between Wetherby (population 11,000) and Leeds, its nearest regional centre lying 13 miles south west, would be prime territory for a successful commercial operation. All the more so... Continue Reading →
Thursday 7th November 2024 It's taken me a while, but my travels finally enabled a catch up with two public transport infrastructure developments. The £27 million rebuild of Sunderland station's southern entrance which opened last December and Halifax's newly rebuilt £20.5 million bus station which fully opened in July after a partial opening a year... Continue Reading →
Saturday 12th October 2024 Many apologies for the late running of this 'Every route 100' blog. This is due to 'blog uploading congestion' over the last couple of weeks so to get things back on schedule, welcome to a special weekend 'Every route 100' double with the next route 100 appearing in an extra Sunday... Continue Reading →
Saturday 15th June 2024 Bradford city centre is in a bit of mess at the moment. The city's large multi-level Transport Interchange closed overnight back in January due to structural safety concerns leading to dozens of terminating buses per hour being dispersed to surrounding streets... ... then in April work began on a major pedestrianisation... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 12th June 2024 Artists impression of the completed White Rose station Another location I visited on my Rail Rover wanderings last week was the site of the new railway station being built in south Leeds called White Rose. Well, I say “visited … the site” but that’s not strictly true as the station is... Continue Reading →
Sunday 2nd July 2023 And another one bites the dust. Introduced in September 2021 for "an initial period of three years" the East Leeds FlexiBus scheme was "the first trial of digital DRT within West Yorkshire" to be "used to evaluate the impact, effectiveness and commercial viability of the DRT service for the wider roll... Continue Reading →
Saturday 9th October 2021 A couple of exciting zero emission developments were added to the Leeds bus scene in September. I caught up with both during a visit on Thursday. First up is another DRT operation using electric Fiat minibuses with Mellor bodies. I know, I know, you must be tiring of reading write ups... Continue Reading →
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