Mass Transit vital to region says mayor

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

- by Harriet Sutton

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 that "anything can happen in politics" but that she believed the scheme had the "political will", locally and nationally, to progress.