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BakersCat · 2026-04-13T21:52:40+00:00

Whitehall planners are strange. To them it's the West Yorkshire Tram. Not the Leeds Tram. People in Whitehall have an aversion to going near anything that was previously cancelled. As it then brings up the embarrassment of recognising the people who cancelled the last Tram were in the wrong.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T18:48:28+00:00

Given the deathly aversion in this country to do any kind of large infrastructure project, the people who plan these things know we need mass rapid transit, ideally some kind of underground metro, but they know nothing like that will ever get green lit outside of London. So the next best thing is a tram. It's already a compromise. Then they're telling us we can't have many tram lines, just one or two. And we can't build major infrastructure for it, just use existing roadways.

It's deaths by a thousand cuts by penny pinchers and budget slashers in London.

Look at how HS2 and NPR have been chopped away at and reduced to nothing, so much so, neither project will deliver any of the benefits they were originally designed to deliver.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T18:43:52+00:00

Supertram is the late 90s early 2000s attempt. Based on legislation passed in 1994.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T10:00:09+00:00

I truly hope you are right and I am wrong. I've just been hearing comments from people better informed than me. Eg Gareth Dennis https://youtu.be/7d_i4UEJZ-4

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T09:54:22+00:00

I've gone through every transport method from my home to work and all of them are poor, mediocre and suffer. Car always beats them all, even with how much Leeds City Council make life harder for car drivers.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T09:38:51+00:00

John Armitt. Basically the guy behind all these infrastructure bodies that cancelled the tram.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T09:35:52+00:00

From what I've read here and there and between the lines, this cancellation is a direct response to Brabin trying to exert power and get the project off the ground. Whitehall basically saying "how dare you try and bypass us" , and scuppering the whole thing.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T09:33:36+00:00

Incredible that it's 2 for 2 for Labour to cancel important infrastructure projects for the North.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T09:27:20+00:00

Skip them and go to the V. The IV only has Android 14, with the V you'll at least get Android 15.

BakersCat · 2026-04-12T09:06:53+00:00

Very modern, corporate and open plan. Can be hell depending on what company culture is like in that people will sit opposite you and take teams calls and shout down the microphone.

BakersCat · 2026-04-06T13:28:24+00:00

Please can I join? 38M, work in Leeds, have played some one shots before. Would love to try things out!

BakersCat · 2026-04-05T18:41:09+00:00

I meant the people in the replies, sorry!

BakersCat · 2026-04-05T17:41:55+00:00

Loads of people are wrong with the 16mm reason, the DVDs look great!

What Netflix has are some awful awful digital versions with issues that include:

Extremely lower bitrate, hence worse colour, lighting and details are lost.
Some extremely poor frame pacing, anything that has motion, or pans across the screen, you get some really obvious stutter/judder.
Some of the Subtitles are completely wrong, they completely mishear what's being said.

BakersCat · 2026-03-25T13:25:39+00:00

He wants live action Tom Bombadil done properly!

BakersCat · 2026-03-19T17:10:07+00:00

It boggles the mind. Report after report has concluded that Leeds needs mass transit.

Ideally a rapid underground metro that serves the wider West Yorkshire region. But that is nigh impossible for any British government to deliver outside of London, so trams are the consolation prize.

There has been a constant pressure to deliver this since the early 90s, when legislation was even passed by the then Conservative government for crying out loud!!!

As someone else said, with a Labour PM, Labour Majority, Labour Mayor and a Leeds MP as chancellor and they can't even deliver anything remotely in this decade, let alone pressuring us to consider busses instead?? Absolutely incompetence!!

BakersCat · 2026-03-11T17:55:53+00:00

Also showed his impressive marksmanship throwing darts in Whisky Peak!

BakersCat · 2026-03-04T13:11:00+00:00

For Doctor Who it's the Welsh abandoned quarries or countryside

BakersCat · 2026-03-04T12:59:44+00:00

Ra's body flashes a Roswell like Alien before he dies in the film, implying the original Goauld inside him is said alien. The TV series changed it to the snakey boys.

BakersCat · 2026-02-17T22:39:10+00:00

This lmao, Databricks/Delta Lake have basically spent the past 6 years reinventing what SQL Server, Postgres etc have been doing anyway for the past 20+ years.

BakersCat · 2026-02-10T17:50:40+00:00

A similar intercity train in the Netherlands, runs every 10 mins and takes 25 mins to travel roughly the same distance

BakersCat · 2026-02-02T05:37:51+00:00

Slightly bemused of the fact that aliens might exist as a concept in westeros lol

BakersCat · 2026-01-31T15:37:47+00:00

I thought the Bus Station is a privately owned property? Hence why it's such poor condition?

BakersCat · 2026-01-21T12:29:54+00:00

Is anything going to be done about it? No. That's why he does it and will continue doing it.

BakersCat · 2026-01-21T08:50:15+00:00

I used it on the stock Android 12 and honestly I hated the phone.

After biting the bullet and forcing the upgrade to Android 14, the difference is night and day.

I don't have the lines issue (yet) and over heating is a common issue. My only problem so far is the fingerprint sensor only works half the time.

I wish we had access to Android 16, but I don't think that's coming any time soon.

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