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Arriva Yorkshire
3rd April 2026
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Arriva to offer free bus travel across West Yorkshire

Arriva is to offer free bus travel across West Yorkshire on Sunday 12 April in a move aimed at thanking customers following a major programme of investment and improvement across its local network. The free travel offer will apply to all Arriva Yorkshire bus services operating in West Yorkshire, giving passengers the chance to…
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Connecting Leeds
19th August 2018
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Over 15,000 responses to Connecting Leeds transport plans

The first two phases of consultation and engagement on the plans to transform transport and travel in Leeds resulted in more than 15,000 responses being received. The second phase of the consultation and engagement on proposed road, rail and park and ride improvements, which ended on August 3, resulted in more than 11,000 views…
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Leeds Network Rail
2nd August 2018
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Statement by Leader of Leeds City Council following meeting with rail operators

Commenting on this morning’s appearance of representatives from Network Rail, Northern and TransPennine at today’s West Yorkshire Combined Authority meeting. Councillor Judith Blake, Leader of Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire’s representative on the Transport for the North Board said: “It is good that the operators and Network Rail apologised for the chaos that’s…
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Connecting Leeds
16th July 2018
3 mins read

Scheme to reduce congestion on M62 to begin next week

Drivers will benefit from reduced congestion on a busy West Yorkshire motorway as major work to improve two key junctions begins on the M62 next week. The roundabouts and slip roads at junction 27 for Gildersome will be upgraded as part of a two-phase scheme starting on Monday 23 July. The scheme – which…
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Northern Rail Leeds
13th June 2018
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Update statement by Leader of Leeds City Council on rail services review

West Yorkshire leader demands words are turned into action on Northern rail in meeting with minister. Following yesterday’s meeting of the Transport for the North partnership board, Leader of Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority representative on the board Councillor Judith Blake said: “The Transport for the North partnership board meeting demonstrated…
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Transport for the North
24th May 2018
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Statement by Leader of Leeds City Council on rail service standards

Leader of Leeds City Council Councillor Judith Blake is to represent northern leaders as part of a new initiative to address rail service standards. Councillor Blake, who is also a member of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, was among leaders who took part in a conference call with Chris Grayling, the Transport Secretary, today…
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Connected and Autonomous vehicles (CAVs)
24th May 2018
4 mins read

Five shortlisted to develop ‘Roads for the Future’ and driverless cars

Smart traffic lights, flexible use of kerbsides, segregated driverless zones, and sat-navs learning through artificial intelligence are among the ideas shortlisted today in a national competition to design roads fit for driverless cars. Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission Sir John Armitt said he and the competition jury had found the quality of entries…
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East Coast Main Line
17th May 2018
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Response to East Coast Main Line Transport Secretary announcement

Leeds City Council’s Leader, Councillor Judith Blake, has made the following response to the announcement by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling that the East Coast Main Line is to be brought back under government control. Councillor Judith Blake, Leader of Leeds City Council, said: “We saw between 2009 and 2015 how a publicly operated line…
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Elland Road and Temple Green
22nd February 2018
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New Leeds city centre stop to meet growing park and ride demand

Due to the huge popularity of park and ride bus services from Elland Road and Temple Green into Leeds, from this week passengers now have two stops available on the city centre’s Boar Lane. With increasing numbers of people choosing to leave their car at the 800-space Elland Road facility or the 1,000-space site…
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Leeds Transport Strategy
20th February 2018
8 mins read

Bus priority consultation underway as part of ‘Connecting Leeds’

The next step in transforming transport and travel in and around Leeds is set to begin with public consultation starting on plans for bus priority measures on key routes in the city. Leeds City Council working with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, partners and stakeholders including all transport operators in the city, has today…
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High-Speed Rail
15th January 2018
3 mins read

Leeds City Region plan to maximise HS2 impact launched

An ambitious plan to use HS2 as the spark to create thousands of jobs for the Leeds City Region is launched today. Around 300,000 jobs are expected to be created over the period covered by the Leeds City Region HS2 Growth Strategy including 41,000 from proposals set out in the plan, 5,000 from construction…
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HS2 Leeds
30th November 2017
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Comment on new HS2 Ltd report

The Leader of Leeds City Council Councillor Judith Blake has made the following statement on today’s report by HS2 Ltd – ‘HS2: Getting the best out of Britain’. Leader of Leeds City Council Councillor Judith Blake said: “Leeds is positioned at the centre of one of the strongest and most resilient economies in Europe,…
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First West Yorkshire
11th October 2017
3 mins read

Leeds welcomes electric double decker bus trial

Following a successful trial in York, First Leeds has this week launched its trial of a new fully electric double decker bus. The “Metrodecker EV” is being trialled by local bus operator First Leeds and will be seen serving the park & ride sites at Elland Road and Temple Green. The zero-emission and fully…
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