Ideas

The A629 is a key corridor of helping people commute between Huddersfield and Halifax along a direct route as well as people across from Halifax to Copley/Brighouse, then continueing on to the A6025/A6026. This is the reason why the road is busy. My idea is to add a Park & Ride bus service which shuttles between Halifax Town Centre and Elland Wood RD next to Exley village. The route could also perhaps run via Halifax Railway Station to help passengers who live in the sub-urbs around halifax, can connect to the train station easier.

Bradford was the first city in England to introduce trollybuses and the last city to remove them. It's now time to reconsider this and look at the reintroduction of trollybuses in Bradford and Halifax. These buses could replace the polluting diesel buses with clean green electric trolly buses. Trolly buses (with rubber tyres) are well suited to Bradford and particularly the hillier areas like Queensbury where conventional trams and trains would struggle on the steeper sections of roadway. They would also not require laying of steel tracks along roadways (for trams) or through farmland (for trains) thus minimising disruptions due to construction works. Battery assisted trollybuses would allow the trollybuses to operate in areas where overhead wires were not available whilst recharging the batteries when operating from the overhead wires. Buses of this type already operate in a number of cities around the world. Examples of manufacturers of trollybuses can be found at http://www.tbus.org.uk/models Adoption of trollybuses of this type could open up an opportunity for the vehicles to be manufactured in West Yorkshire as well as reducing greenhouse gas emmissions as they can operate from renewable electricity.