"This would be investment for the future to create a World Class underground system for the whole of West Yorkshire. This would solve all the congestion and environmental issues by enabling people to get about easily and replace the buses and trains and trams and alot of cars. It would also link up all the towns cities and villages in the area."
This is another petition that seems to come out of nowhere - what are the problems faced by West Yorkshire particularly that an underground system, of all things, would solve? Underground systems are expensive - what on earth are the benefits?
I don't know all of West Yorks that well - I have family in Bingley and used to have grandparents in Bradford; I seem to have spent hours on trains between Leeds and Bradford or Shipley or Pudsey or wherever it was convenient for someone to pick me up. It all seemed to work - better than, say, public transport in rural Gloucestershire does.
So - er - what would be the point? Judging by, oh, Paris, London, anywhere else with an underground, you can't replace the buses or the trains, or the cars ... And it costs a shed load of money - for what? Madness.
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