Annn article in the Yorkshire Evening Post informs us that the NGT trolleybus An article in the Yorkshire Evening Post informs us that the NGT trolleybus scheme has been given the green light, but fails to mention that the proposed route will take it across Woodhouse Moor.
The original idea behind NGT was to get people out of their cars and onto public transport. But somewhere along the line, the planners have lost sight of that. Incredibly, the reason they want NGT to run across the Moor, is so that inbound motorists won’t be held up by the trolleybus at the junction of Woodhouse Lane with Clarendon Road. Don’t they realise that if motorists are held up by the trolleybus at this junction, that’s just the incentive they need to get them out of their cars and onto the bus?
Woodhouse Moor is the only one of our inner city moors to have escaped the motorway building frenzy of the sixties and seventies. Now it too is to be sacrificed to the motor car.
I cycle this route every day to work. I can honestly say that nobody gets held up here at all. There’s even a lay-by already so that busses don’t stop in front of traffic. I don’t understand the reason for this at all.
Also nobody wanted a trolleybus. Give us the damned tram service already. Gah.
What are they doing about the tail-backs between Hyde Park corner and Headingley arndale centre?
Thanks for your comment JP. About the tail-backs between Hyde Park Corner and the Arndale Centre. They intend using a ‘vehicle stacking system’ to store this traffic on Woodhouse Moor. The idea is to get the traffic off the narrower stretches of road at either end of the Moor and then hold it on the Moor, so that the trolley bus can pass more easily along the narrower sections.