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To: Candidates for West Yorkshire Mayor
West Yorkshire Needs A Tram!
Pledge to build a full tram network for all of West Yorkshire in your election campaign. No ifs. no buts. We deserve a high quality tram network as well as better buses, not either or.
Thank you
Why is this important?
Today Leeds is the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system, but West Yorkshire used to have a dense, cheap tram network accessible to everybody.
We deserve a London quality transport system, nothing less.
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority's Mass Transit 2040 plan has suggested that it might create a mass transit network using 'BRT' or Bus Rapid Transit, rather than a tram or light rail system.
This is inadequate. West Yorkshire had a world leading tram network in the 1950s, making travel cheap and accessible to everyone. Now travel is more expensive and congested than ever.
We need a guarantee that we'll get a tram to every town, not just another bus service!
So we need every mayoral candidate to commit to a tram network that will serve every part of West Yorkshire, nothing less.
A new tram line in your town would make your journeys quicker, open up jobs, reduce local pollution, and bring investment to our community.
We need a new low carbon public transport system to fight pollution and climate change in our region.
if its good enough for Manchester, Edinburgh and London, its good enough for us.
Help us make this the big issue of the West Yorkshier mayoral election this year! Lets bring a tram system to West Yorkshire
How it will be delivered
By hand, to the new mayor's office.