West Yorkshire Combined Authority sets out plans for mass transit system
Residents of West Yorkshire have been asked to give their views on plans for a new transport network that aims to connect the region’s communities to jobs, education and opportunities.
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority is publishing its Connectivity Infrastructure Plan and Mass Transit Vision 2040 today and is asking people across the region to have their say.
The proposals identify where people will live and work in the coming decades, the journeys they will need to take and how best to connect them through an integrated network including walking and cycling, bus, mass transit and rail.
A CONTRACTOR has been appointed to undertake the latest phase of a multi-million pound scheme to improve the A629 linking Halifax and Huddersfield. John Sisk and Son has been appointed by Calderdale Council to carry out construction work on the Calder and Hebble junction, Halifax – the largest civil engineering project the borough will have undertaken in decades. This is a £27 million project which is fully funded by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority through the West Yorkshire Plus Transport Fund. As part of the design and build scheme, Sisk and Son has appointed consultants WSP to work on the design elements.
A MULTI BILLION pound plan to create a new mass transit system linking areas of West Yorkshire could use abandoned rail routes. For the past two years, West Yorkshire Combined Authority has been working on a mass transit scheme for the region, and today more details about the hugely ambitious plans were revealed. Although exact locations of stops on the various routes have yet to be decided, the scheme would likely see a mass transit interchange in Bradford city centre as well as stops in areas without rail stations, including Heckmondwike, Cleckheaton, Junction 26 of the M62, “South Bradford” and Laisterdyke.
Included on the list is the Drummond Mill site. The Victorian Mill was destroyed in a huge blaze almost five years ago, and the prominent, privately owned site has been empty ever since. Also on the list is Lister Mill. Although much work has been done to convert the Manningham Mill into flats, a large area of the mill site is still un-developed. The report says a further 175 homes could be built on the privately owned site. Bradford Council owned land at Crag Road in Shipley could provide 120 homes, and a long empty, privately owned brownfield site on Northside Road in Lidget Green could have space for 420 homes.
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UK: West Yorkshire Combined Authority has begun public engagement on the latest iteration of proposals to build a Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway station. The plans have been updated following feedback received during a public consultation last year.
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