EPISODE · Oct 19, 2022 · 35 MIN
🚌 Why Leeds lags behind Dublin and Lille 🏗️ Our attitude towards Levelling Up
from The Northern Agenda · host Laudable
It's a truth universally acknowledged that Leeds is the biggest urban area in Western Europe without a rapid mass transit system - a metro to you and me - despite numerous attempts over the years to get one.Political leaders in West Yorkshire hope this could finally be about to change and have submitted plans to government for a 21st century mass transit system connecting Leeds to Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury and the rest of the county.But there's a great blog post published in the last few days Tom Forth, head of data at Leeds-based Open Innovations, which spells out just how much Leeds is missing out by not having a metro system. He joins Northern Agenda editor Rob Parsons to discuss how Leeds lags behind Dublin and Lille with its lack of trams.And there's been no shortage of column inches devoted to the subject of levelling up - remember that? - in the last three years: the policy implications, the political implications, the economic implications.But how much time has been spent finding out how people who might be affected by Boris Johnson's flagship policy feel about their areas, what could and should be done to improve them, and who they trust to actually do it?Probably not enough, and in an effort to fill that gap a new survey has been carried out described as the biggest of its kind covering the public’s levelling up priorities and how they would like them to be delivered.It's been conducted by the UK in a Changing Europe research initiative and YouGov and the results are out today. Sophie Stowers, Research Assistant at UK in a Changing Europe, who helped write the report, and its director Professor Anand Menon explain what they found out in the report.The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that Leeds is the biggest urban area in Western Europe without a rapid mass transit system - a metro to you and me - despite numerous attempts over the years to get one.Political leaders in West Yorkshire hope this could finally be about to change and have submitted plans to government for a 21st century mass transit system connecting Leeds to Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury and the rest of the county.But there's a great blog post published in the last few days Tom Forth, head of data at Leeds-based Open Innovations, which spells out just how much Leeds is missing out by not having a metro system. He joins Northern Agenda editor Rob Parsons to discuss how Leeds lags behind Dublin and Lille with its lack of trams.And there's been no shortage of column inches devoted to the subject of levelling up - remember that? - in the last three years: the policy implications, the political implications, the economic implications.But how much time has been spent finding out how people who might be affected by Boris Johnson's flagship policy feel about their areas, what could and should be done to improve them, and who they trust to actually do it?Probably not enough, and in an effort to fill that gap a new survey has been carried out described as the biggest of its kind covering the public’s levelling up priorities and how they would like them to be delivered.It's been conducted by the UK in a Changing Europe research initiative and YouGov and the results are out today. Sophie Stowers, Research Assistant at UK in a Changing Europe, who helped write the report, and its director Professor Anand Menon explain what they found out in the report.The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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