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First responds with ‘New Bus for Leeds’

21 February 2014
First’s proposed New Bus for Leeds would be very similar in appearance to London mayor Boris Johnson’s New bus for London
First’s proposed New Bus for Leeds would be very similar in appearance to London mayor Boris Johnson’s New bus for London

 

FirstGroup is the dominant bus operator in Leeds and therefore has most to lose from the trolleybus plans. This month it unveiled its alternative investment strategy. 

“The choice of wired trolleybus technology is seriously flawed,” it says. “It is unnecessarily expensive, visually intrusive, inflexible and unresponsive to change both immediate and long- term.”

First Leeds carries around 51 million passenger journeys a year, but 12.4 million are likely to be...

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