Road, Rail & Access Issues

The East Leeds Orbital Road (ELOR) is I believe due to be completed by late 2021. Before their collapse Carillon were the preferred contractor for the works. The Council stated that following the collapse they would be negotiating with the other tenderers in order to appoint a new contractor. Associated with the scheme improvements are proposed for junctions on the A6120 Ring Road at Roundhay Park Lane, Harrogate Road (A61) and King Lane. Works associated with these improvements have already commenced at Roundhay Park Lane and Harrogate Road.

I don't know any details on the timescale of the Link Road.

airforced said:

1. Is the road going to be built or is it, at this stage at least, just a piece of wishful thinking?
2. How would this road fit in with the proposed link road and, for that matter, when are we due to hear about which route will be chosen?
3. Are there any proposed time scales for building these roads or will they be so far in the distance that I will have given up flying due to the effects of old age and so be of no benefit to oldies like me? I suspect, as with all projects of this nature, the latter but live in hope!

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Leeds City Council has finally got it's act together with this project and it will be delivered. The council is now in the process of compulsory purchase of land for the Leeds Orbital Road so it's definitely going to get built. I think I read 2019 for the start date. Initially Carillion was awarded the contract to build the road but this has now been awarded to Balfour Beatty since the demise of Carillion.

As for how the new road links into the existing road network and proposed link road, the new duel carriageway road will end close to Roundhay Park where the existing road is single carriageway for about 1.5 miles before it reaches Moortown where it becomes duel carriageway again. I don't know if the council has any plans to upgrade this stretch.

The proposed airport link road is primarily to serve traffic from the west so I'm not sure how helpful that will be in this instance. There has been little update with regards to the airport link road so I imagine it's some way off yet although Option A is the most likely option as it is the only option to provided adequate connectivity with the proposed airport parkway.

Question for White Heather or anyone else who might know, was there any update at the meeting regarding the Double red line painting on the roads around the airport?

Thank you.

The double red lines are a matter for the Highways Authority (no doubt with some input from the Civil Aviation Authority) which should make an official Road Traffic Order. This should appear in the relevant press ie Wharfedale, Yorkshire Post or YEP

B737 said:

Question for White Heather or anyone else who might know, was there any update at the meeting regarding the Double red line painting on the roads around the airport?

Thank you.

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The council have completed the required period of time following publication of the proposed red route and the airport stated they are now waiting for the report from Leeds City Council and details of when the current double yellows will become double red. Originally, the schedule was to carry out the work this month, so I am not sure if it has slipped or not, but it will almost certainly happen in the near future.

Excellent, thank you for the update.

It would appear that the 62 to Keighley from the airport is now operating and I assume the 967 to Menston has stopped yet the LBA website makes no mention of this in "Getting to the Airport -by Bus". I would have thought the airport would have been keen to make this new change as quick as possible, after all it would also help the Keighley Bus Co to get the route established.

I will drop a line to the airport MD's secretary and point this out rmac. Hopefully they will get it sorted pretty quickly.Perhaps the person with responsibility for updating is on holiday!

White Heather said:

I will drop a line to the airport MD's secretary and point this out rmac. Hopefully they will get it sorted pretty quickly.Perhaps the person with responsibility for updating is on holiday!

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There does not even appear to be a 62 timetable on Otley Bus Station for Stand 3!

PETER J HALL said:

There does not even appear to be a 62 timetable on Otley Bus Station for Stand 3!

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Thats one for Metro to fix.

Looks like this project has moved a step closer. I can't see how re-building the junction can make much difference if I'm honest. 8.7m seems rather a lot to do not a lot in my humble opinion, I hope I'm proved wrong.

I'd like to know how they plan on improving that junction?

Sherburnflyer92 said:

I'd like to know how they plan on improving that junction?

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Supposedly Bradford council are going to compulsory purchase land around the junction. I would think the only way they can improve the flow is to have slip roads or duel sections?

mode1 said:

Will this work somehow future proof and tie in with the proposed link road?

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Not as far as I know.

What about the war memorial?

armadillomaster said:

What about the war memorial?

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Sherburnflyer92 said:

I'd like to know how they plan on improving that junction?

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I should imagine that if it has to be disturbed it will be relocated to a suitable site. As regards improving traffic flow, with access to more land and with careful planning and design it should lead to far less congestion and delay and be much safer, especially for pedestrians. Can’t be any worse than it is now.

https://www.bradford.gov.uk/transpo...n-improvement-scheme/?Folder=1+Scheme+details

For anyone who is interested if you click on the link I've provided it takes you Bradford council website which has a diagram of the proposed improvements along with some more information on the matter.

Here's the planned new road layout design for the Harrogate Road (A658) / New Lane {A657) junction.

The schemes engineering drawings can be downloaded here : http://www.bradford.gov.uk/Document... Scheme details//SchemeEngineeringDrawing.pdf

Looks to make it worse unless they sync all the traffic lights. For example; if you want to turn left coming from harrogate road you have to go straight on, right then left. Fine. However if the filter lane lights are red AND there is a queue this could lead to the right hand lane coming to a standstill - lets hope they have use some common sense.

Looks like another nightmare road alteration! they had plenty of land to build a far better junction but decided to bang a farmfoods near to the current junction! also another reason so much traffic builds in that area is due to the amount of pedestrian crossings and minor junctions. it makes me laugh the stupid ideas they have for eg the now horsforth roundabout and rodley roundabouts which are far worse than before. In Alicante, spain they were a number of similar roundabout junctions that used to clog up but they used their brains there and built tunnels! I'm aware that would be difficult here but my god what a nightmare the roads are becoming here!