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Many European cities have rail networks while similar-sized UK and Irish cities remain bus-dependent (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Bradford has two railway stations and those are pretty close together. They are also 700m apart and do not have track connecting them. In other words you can not use heavy rail for any reasonable journey within Bradford. Leeds is better, but we are still talking trains coming every 30min and six stations within the city and some massive gaps in the network. Similar story for Belfast.

I’m a big advocate for trams and light rail but there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for all cities, cities with different geography, density, etc need different transport.

British cities do have high enough density for light rail and the geography is mostly pretty flat. It is honestly the most obvious way to improve the public transport in cities like Leeds and Bradford in a big way. To be fair Leeds might want to think about a light automated metro as well.

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 1 points 22 hours ago

I'm not disagreeing with you there.