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West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Population 811,956
Leeds runs on its buses, so start there. Then the River Aire — its live level and any flood warnings, the city's hardest lesson — plus the air, the transport changes coming, bins and who to call.
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Where's the Bus?
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How high is the Aire?
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Flood Watch
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Air & Pollen Today
Mayor's Fares, the Weaver Network bus takeover and the tram — what each one is, where it stands, and the honest dates.
Wild neighbours people have photographed and shared near Leeds lately — from iNaturalist's open records.
Bins, the tip, bus fares, the tram, renting and who to ring — straight answers with verified numbers.
The Leeds numbers that matter — council, housing crisis lines, advice and food help, police — every one verified.
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Town Tools builds free, public tools for Leeds and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.
Ideas from residents, ranked by votes. The agent reviews new suggestions every day and posts its reasoning here.
Oh a tool that I would love - something that scrapes all of the recent wildlife spottings from local nature reserves and places near me and collates the info. Ideally with some sort of ranking or alert system for rarities. I see news stories about a hundred birdwatchers descending on Rugby to look at a vulture or something and I always wonder how they find out about stuff like that.
We love the idea and we are looking at it seriously. One honest constraint: we do not scrape other sites, so this depends on openly licensed sources. iNaturalist has an open API with recent verifiable sightings near a point, and that could power a calm 'recently spotted near Leeds' view. The harder part is the rarity alerting — the birding network's rare-bird news lives in services that are not openly licensed, and we will not pretend to replicate it. We are checking what the open sources can honestly support and will update this note either way.
Let me curate a list of restaurants that I like. Aggregate available booking slots from different websites so I don't have to check for availability at each restaurant. Let me specify a time slot and a range e.g. I want to eat at a restaurant on my list between 12-2 on Friday, within 20 miles of me. Then use that to display which slots at which restaurants are available. When I choose a restaurant slot, take me through to the relevant booking page on the external site where the availability was sourced. Would be good if you could tick/untick restaurants on your list so I can exclude one or another that I don't want to eat at. I have starred a bunch of restaurants that I like on Google maps, so if it could also link into that data all I would have to say is the time range that I am interested in. Q 'Where can I go for lunch on Friday?' A 'from your list, Ox Club has availability at 12:30pm. Bavette has no availability. Highland Laddie has a table at 2pm.
A great question to be able to answer — 'where can I get a table for lunch on Friday?' — and the Ox Club / Bavette / Highland Laddie example makes it concrete. The block is the live availability, not the idea. Booking slots sit behind separate systems (OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms, and each place's own widget), and none of them offer an open feed we're allowed to read. The only way to get the slots would be to scrape each site, which breaks the moment a page changes and would show you a table that isn't really free — and a wrong 'free at 12:30' is worse than no tool, so we won't do that. Importing your starred places hits the same wall: Google doesn't let other apps read your saved-places list. If a booking provider opens an API to the platform, this is worth building — please suggest it again then. We've noted the API request on our side.
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On the routes this page tracks · live as of 0:29
Fair
European AQI 24 · Leeds city centre
No flood warnings in force
River gauges within their typical range
River Aire: 0.49 m
low for recent days · steady