'Anything can happen but Mass Transit should be safe'

MAYOR SAYS TRANSPORT SCHEME HAS 'POLITICAL WILL' TO SURVIVE ANY FUTURE PRIME MINISTER OR GOVERNMENT CHANGE

- By CHRIS YOUNG Local Democracy Reporter [e-mail]

WEST Yorkshire's mayor believes any future government will see the planned tram line between Bradford and Leeds as "vital" to the region.

Tracy Brabin was responding to a question about whether a future government or prime minister could decide the proposed mass transit system was too expensive and scrap the scheme before it was completed.

She told a meeting of West Yorkshire Combined Authority on Thursday that "anything can happen in politics" but that she believed the scheme had the "political will" both locally and nationally to progress.

At the meeting councillors from across West Yorkshire were given an update on the planned tram system, the first line of which will run between Bradford and Leeds city centres.