Politics & Transport – Attempt 2<\/span><\/p>\n
Even more money was spent on consultants and showy publicly and the proposals were duly submitted to the Government.<\/p><\/div>\n
… and there was much rejoicing in the marbled corridors of Leeds Town Hall.<\/p>\n
In many ways, the initial scheme was modest.<\/p><\/div>\n
If the colouring means anything, you would assumer that these routes would operate cross city, thus mirroring one of the failed tram routes!<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It was all looking great for a prompt start in the road widening and junction rebuilding that would be necessary to give the swish continental-style trolleybuses a slick route.<\/p><\/div>\n
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The aybive two pictures are typical but may not be the actual parades to be demolished.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n
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Oddly, the campaign did not seem to be concerned about tunning lots of left hand drive trolleybuses along the A660!\u00a0<\/p><\/span><\/div>\n
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The outcome of the Public Enquiry was not unexpected. Here is a summary of the progress of the the scheme.<\/p><\/div>\n
Who could resist that endearing smile – OR – that controversial parliamentary frock?<\/p>\n
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<\/p><\/span>Told You So, 2 … Turbine Blades\n
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Told You So, 3 … Power Stations<\/p>\n
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Politics & Transport – Attempt 2 It certainly looked cool and the artists’impressions were impressive in the extreme. Having failed to gain Government approval for the tram network and having spent vast sums of money planning it and preparing the case, it was thrown out by the late Alistair Darling, then Minister of Roads and not so mich Minister of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/redesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}