YEP Letters: July 18

Towpath is just ‘fast cycle track’

Martin J Phillips, Leeds 16

As a walker and cyclist I can empathise with Ivan Kovacks’ recent scary experience (YEP Leters July 11).

The very reason CityConnect (with the Canal & River Trust) layed tarmac on the canal towpath from Leeds to Rodley was purely to provide a fast cycle track for commuters to get in and out of Leeds on their road cycles.

In effect millions of pounds was spent to provide quick cycle access for an hour in the morning and an hour at night for just a couple of dozen people. For the remaining 16 hours-plus of daylight, this section of towpath is now hardly used.

Walkers, runners and cyclists had previously used this section of the canal as an off-road corridor for exercising.

Now it is no better than being on a road and people avoid it and those that can prefer instead to travel from Rodley in the opposite direction where the towpath is covered with ‘green’ material.

Call for a second EU referendum: your views..

Former education secretary Justine Greening has said there needs to be a second referendum on leaving the EU.She argued the final Brexit decision should be given back to the people and out of the hands of “deadlocked politicians”. She called for three options to be on the ballot paper: the Prime Minister’s Chequers deal or staying in the EU or a clean break from Europe with no deal. We asked YEP readers for their views and here’s what some of them said on social media..

John Kew

So why won’t a second referendum have the same division? Remain or leave,no change.

Mark Hinchliffe

So let me get this straight.... we voted to leave and now the country is in turmoil because of that so this MP says and she thinks another referendum will be a good idea. So if the vote came back to leave again wouldn’t the government be in the same place they are now just further down the road and more money wasted or do we keep going until remain wins?

Ann Dauny

This was always going to happen.

It’s caused by politicians interfering with the democratic vote to reverse it, and I find it a disgrace , who do these people think they are to disregard the will of the people?

We do not need another vote we have already done so. Just act on the result of it and stop trying to scupper it.

Keith Crispin

How many more referendums do we need?

We had one and leave the EU won. So get over it. To do it time and time again til Remain get what they want is not a democratic vote.

Kara Rhodes

I voted leave and will vote leave again if a second was to happen (but it won’t).