SHOPPERS in Yeadon have given a ‘thumbs up’ to renationalising the railways.
A straw poll in High Street last weekend found that the vast majority - around nine out of ten of the 70-odd shoppers asked - backed the move.
Local Labour campaigners conducted the survey outside Morrisons on Saturday, February 16. Elliot Nathan, Labour’s candidate for Otley and Yeadon* in this May’s city council elections, said: “Our light-hearted poll was a way to gather the views of Yeadon shoppers and many were concerned about the general state of public transport.
“They told me bus links from Yeadon to Guiseley station and to Leeds and Bradford are far from satisfactory. Overcrowded trains in rush-hour is also big issue.”
Labour says that in government it would cap rail fares and bring the railways back into public ownership.
*Liberal Democrat candidate Kamran Hussain said: “Liberal Democrats are the only party demanding better. The Conservatives have facilitated the current mess and show no interest in penalising failing train companies; Labour look nostalgically back to the 1960s.”
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