‘Field of Dreams stuff’: will Leeds finally get its trams after decades of promises?

Plans for such a transport system have been discussed for many years and not all locals believe that service will come It is 1993 and a young James Lewis is going to do work experience in Leeds city council’s highways department. His team, Leeds United FC, have only just relinquished the title of defending English champions. And the council is marching on with big ideas: putting the abandoned 1980s Metroline tram plan behind them, and forgetting the unloved 1991 concept of a Leeds Advanced Tr...

By Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent