How could Leeds be improved?
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00:00 Hmm, I'm going to go with the public transport for sure.
00:03 Yeah.
00:03 Like, sort of just think something like the transport links to certain bits which are a bit more liveable, a bit more affordable.
00:10 Yeah.
00:10 A bit trickier to like access, get to.
00:13 Yeah.
00:13 Where like?
00:15 So just like where we are, like more in Alney and stuff and just the moment you get into anywhere that's not as like on the main roads and things, just a bit tricky to get to places.
00:25 Yeah.
00:25 And by car and things but yeah, public transport.
00:28 Yeah, I think that would be a common one if you asked those people, wouldn't it?
00:31 Definitely.
00:32 How do you think Leeds could be improved?
00:34 Well, I think if the Labour council were given a little bit more money and had lost so much funding over the years since 2010, so maybe a new government, I think things might be improved.
00:47 Yeah, you can see things were getting better after the next general election then.
00:50 Look at a struggle of Labour but hopefully things can only get better.
00:56 Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a lot that could be done to help local councils.
01:01 Yeah, yeah, that's right.
01:04 But you know, having said that, we've come here today to Kirtstall Abbey and it's really lovely and it's on our doorstep.
01:10 Yeah, yeah.
01:11 And I read an article in the Guardian yesterday that Leeds is one of the top places to live.
01:17 Yeah, yeah.
01:17 And a great article about all the attractions in Leeds, something that, you know, that is positive.
01:22 I think Leeds is okay.
01:23 Yeah.
01:24 I don't think anywhere else.
01:25 Yeah, yeah.
01:26 I mean, I've lived here a long time, so I think honestly one of the biggest things is transport.
01:31 Like, it's hard to go to Leeds and not think how can the transport be improved, you know.
01:36 It's, I don't know, it's just one of those things that it's, I feel like, especially the area near like the leisure centre and stuff, like on Kirtstall Road, like that bit down there.
01:46 Yeah.
01:46 It's always really rife with like traffic and things like that, so maybe traffic as well.
01:51 But I definitely say the public transport.
01:53 Like, I always talk to my fiancée about maybe a tram system could come back, you know what I mean.
01:59 Yeah.
01:59 But yeah, I definitely say like...
02:01 Do you notice it when you go to other cities as well?
02:04 Well, not as much.
02:05 Like, you notice, I think traffic is universal, you know what I mean.
02:08 Yeah, yeah.
02:08 I reckon in Leeds...
02:09 But I mean the issues in Leeds.
02:10 Yeah, it's a lot more aggravated and obvious, let's say.