The east end of Leeds could do without something else causing congestion and slowing services down.
The councillor quoted seems to think Marsh Lane is as inside Leeds City Centre as Oxford Road is to Manchester, but it's far from it. She mentions the John Lewis development, but that's as close to Leeds City station as it is to Marsh Lane, and it's a far easier walk, being on mostly pedestrianised streets to City station, and Leeds City station is still only a mile from the new development, an average 20 minute walk for most. She brings up Bradford for some reason too, when the closest station to either of Bradford's is twice the distance that Marsh Lane is to City.
There might be some argument for it if the station could be on a loop similar to the through lines at Oxford Road, but I don;t think that was ever the case, so making it so would be rather more expensive that it would otherwise be.
https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co...eds-other-city-centre-train-station-1-9682352