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image captionElinor Hewitt says the difficulty of getting around Leeds by bus is ridiculous
On 6 May voters in West Yorkshire will elect their first mayor. As well as having powers over policing, adult education and housing, the successful candidate will also take control of transport. The BBC asked voters about their experiences, and put their concerns to the candidates.
NHS worker Elinor Hewitt, 35, says the bus system in Leeds needs massive changes .
Ms Hewitt, her husband and their children use the bus from their home in Seacroft to St James Hospital every day. We have to be really regimented in making sure we are up and out of the house an hour before we need to be at school and work, for a two-and-a-half mile journey, in case the bus we want doesn t turn up, she says.
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“I cannot believe three years on from the timetable chaos we are looking at a decade of a much reduced timetable in large parts of Manchester and the north.
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