DAN Laythorpe's recent letter, (YEP, 18 March) relating his unfortunate peak time bus journey between Albion Street and Headingley, certainly resulted in a major bout of invective!
He claims that if the supertram had been installed, he would have been speedily transported from city to suburb.
My problem is, how would the tram negotiate the route in question any faster than a bus?
The letter alludes to "congestion relief
and improved highway infrastructure", but this would equally help the bus, would it not?
Let's face it, the problem is not the mode of transport, but quite simply, the volume of traffic, to which there is no simple solution. Therefore spending billions on a supertram should stay on the back burner for now.
John McGuinness, by email
l I'm not quite sure how Dan Laythorpe comes to the conclusion that had Leeds Supertram been built he wouldn't have to sit on public transport for so long between the town centre and Headingley.
He even says himself the bus he was travelling on the same route as the proposed tram route, ie, on the road.
Where does Mr Laythorpe think all the buses and cars that cause the congestion in the first place will disappear to should trams be running down Otley Road as well?
Trams running down that road would have to wait in the traffic along with all the other vehicles; in fact, it might even add to the congestion.
James Wagstaff, Ash Crescent, Leeds
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