Without a metro Leeds needs double if not triple the number of buses to cater for the number of commuters to be able to realistically reduce the number of cars on the road.
Though cycling is a great method of personal convenience, a good commuting bike is unfortunately a luxury (in Britain) that is not affordable for some.
The long and short of it is that the entire county of West Yorkshire needs a metro system.
@renbymon And yet, that'd require the kind of influx of money and resources that the Tory government would never deign to assign to the north. x_x