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Default Devolved franchising powers & Leeds Trolleybus

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:21:47 +0100
Paul Corfield wrote:
In separate news the Leeds Trolleybus scheme has been granted the go
ahead and funding.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/news/press-rel...ess-20120705b/


I wonder if they'll keep it cheap and simple and buy a tried and tested
reliable off the shelf system from europe or go with the usual "the UK
operating enviroment is a special case so we need to design everything from
scratch" idiocy?

B2003