Two additional tracks to be built into Leeds station from the West?

[Ben427]

East Leeds new town is 5,000 in phase 1 and 5,000 in phase 2 stretching as far as and including Barwick.

The recognised thumb nail used by planners is 1.2 commuters per household. The nearest employment is Leeds.

As I have said before, the plan was to reopen stations at Penda's Way, Scholes and a P&R station on the A64 York-Leeds road.

I disagree that a more frequent service on the Leeds-York line would be preferable to reinstating the Wetherby line. 40,000 live within a mile of the trackbed now and 80,000 when East Leeds is completed. That is more than Garforth, Micklefield and Church Fenton combined.

The East Leeds development is not delivered 10k homes at all. Look at the SAP. Either evidence your claims or stop making stuff up.

The Weather by line reinstatement would require alot of housing to be ripped up, not just into the housing around ELOR, but closer to Wetherby

Buses have a key role to play, and the idea that connecting either Ripon, a small town, or Wetherby (a town which is close to both Leeds and York. Not everyone commutes into Leeds city centre.

ELOR is well used. You clearly have an ax to grind (look at your comments about North Yorkshire officers and the Ripon reopening).

 

[yorkie]

The group committee includes a soil analyst, ex BR bridge designer, retired judge, solicitor, retired civil servant, retired NHS accountant and Dr Morgan. He is NOT a solitary campaigner.

It is well documented as being one individual's obsession:

Reopening Ripon to Harrogate train line could cost ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’

A transport official has poured cold water on hopes that the Harrogate – Ripon – Northallerton train line will reopen any time soon, saying to do so could cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds.

www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk

"We didn’t get the same level of support for Harrogate to Ripon when compared to other schemes.
"It’s been one individual all the time who’s been writing.
"There has to be a more coordinated campaign.”

There is one individual on this forum, namely yourself exclusively, who has been campaigning.

From another thread a few years ago:

More lengthy irrelevant obfuscation, I see. Are you Dr Adrian Morgan or not?

While I had only a vague recollection that the name came up in relation to one of your posts on this forum, a 10 second google reveals that he, like you is an ex-surgeon and Ripon councillor. Possibly coincidence, I admit, it is possible that there are two ex-surgeons with an interest in railways on Ripon Council.

That's not to say there aren't others who would like to see it happen, but it is my understanding that there is only one individual who is really pushing for the line to be reopened.