Mass Transit Events & FAQs

This is our first public consultation on our initial route proposals for Leeds and Bradford. The consultation is aimed at providing an indication of where a proposed Leeds Line and a Bradford Line could go and where it could connect to. The feedback we gather from this consultation will help us to identify the preferred routes for the Leeds Line and a Bradford Line. We will then hold a consultation in 2025 on the preferred route for each line where we will provide the level of detail you are requesting now. In preparation for the 2025 consultation we will be undertaking further technical and environmental impact assessments.

Please take your time to digest all the available information online including the consultation videos and come along to one of our many consultation events. Your feedback is essential to progressing Mass Transit.

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Mass Transit.

After this current options consultation, we will consider all feedback and continue to engage with our local authority partners, the Department for Transport and other statutory organisations to decide on preferred routes. We will hold a preferred route consultation in 2025 which will include our proposals for tram stops, depots, potential park and ride sites and engineering works that would make it easier to extend both lines in the future. 

In the second half of 2026, we intend to apply to the Secretary of State for Transport for legal powers and planning permission that will allow us to start to build and operate phase one. This will be in the form of a Transport and Works Act Order, which are regularly granted for the construction of new railways, tramways and other transport systems across the country. The Bradford Line will be developed in parallel with the Leeds Line, but each will require separate applications for legal powers and planning permission. The first applications would then be considered at a planning enquiry in 2027. Depending on how long the decision takes to be made we hope to start construction in 2028.

Please come along to one of our many consultation events if you have any further questions. Your feedback is essential to progressing Mass Transit and we would encourage you to complete our feedback survey online which you can find on our website www.wymasstransit.com.

Thank you for your enquiry regarding West Yorkshire Mass Transit Phase one, we appreciate your interest.

We are not at the stage where we can define the landscaping and planting that would be created near the tram lines, that level of detail will be made available at the next consultation. We are committed to creating a sustainable mass transit network and have produced a sustainability strategy that outlines how we will achieve this. As part of this options consultation, we are seeking your feedback on this document.

We’re aiming to deliver a net gain in biodiversity, which means we will be seeking opportunities to restore and improve connectivity of habitats along the routes to provide ‘green’ (good for ecology) and ‘blue’ (good for water) areas within the design. This could be through the improvement or creation of habitats along the route or by creating new habitats more widely across the region.

Please note that for formal feedback to be taken into account, we ask that this is submitted via the consultation feedback survey. It can be completed at www.wymasstransit.com

Thank you for your enquiry regarding West Yorkshire Mass Transit Phase one, we appreciate your interest.

The West Yorkshire Mass Transit Vision 2040 sets the pipeline for the development of Mass Transit across West Yorkshire. As a pipeline, delivery of the whole network will take time and will be phased. As the most travelled area in West Yorkshire, Leeds city centre will be at the heart of the system and will be served by early phases. Phase one will link Leeds and Bradford. The Vision identifes a number of other corridors that we will continue to work on in partnership with Government and district partners to deliver our Mass Transit ambition.

Please note that for formal feedback to be taken into account, we ask that this is submitted via the consultation feedback survey. It can be completed at www.wymasstransit.com

Thank you for your enquiry regarding West Yorkshire Mass Transit Phase one, we appreciate your interest.

The West Yorkshire Mass Transit Vision 2040 sets the pipeline for the development of Mass Transit across West Yorkshire. As a pipeline, delivery of the whole network it will take time and will be phased. As the most travelled area in West Yorkshire, Leeds city centre will be at the heart of the system and will be served by early phases.Phase one will link Leeds and Bradford. The Vision identifes a number of other corridors that we will continue to work on in partnership with Government and district partners to deliver our Mass Transit ambition.

After this current options consultation, we will consider all feedback and continue to engage with our local authority partners, the Department for Transport and other statutory organisations to decide on preferred routes. We will hold a preferred route consultation in 2025 which will include our proposals for tram stops, depots, potential park and ride sites and engineering works that would make it easier to extend both lines in the future. 

In the second half of 2026, we intend to apply to the Secretary of State for Transport for legal powers and planning permission that will allow us to start to build and operate phase one. This will be in the form of a Transport and Works Act Order, which are regularly granted for the construction of new railways, tramways and other transport systems across the country. The Bradford Line will be developed in parallel with the Leeds Line, but each will require separate applications for legal powers and planning permission. The first applications would then be considered at a planning enquiry in 2027. Depending on how long the decision takes to be made we hope to start construction in 2028.

Please note that for formal feedback to be taken into account, we ask that this is submitted via the consultation feedback survey. It can be completed at www.wymasstransit.com