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Road Safety Week: Stark figures highlight impact of deaths and serious injuries on district’s roads: Road Safety Week 600x338

20 Nov 2024

Road Safety Week: Stark figures highlight impact of deaths and serious injuries on district’s roads

An average of one person every month is killed and more than one seriously injured every day on roads in Leeds, latest figures show.

Highways

Woodhouse Lane Gateway: £20m transformative travel plans unveiled for key city centre route: Parkinson Building visualisation cropped

06 Nov 2024

Woodhouse Lane Gateway: £20m transformative travel plans unveiled for key city centre route

Have your say on the proposals, between the centre of Leeds and Hyde Park and Woodhouse areas of the city, by Monday 16 December 2024.

Connecting Leeds Highways Transport City centre

Plan ahead for busiest time of year on city centre roads: Traffic management Rodley to Horsforth A6120

05 Nov 2024

Plan ahead for busiest time of year on city centre roads

Motorists travelling into Leeds are being encouraged to plan ahead for what is typically the busiest time of year on the city centre’s roads.

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New film highlights the dangers of school gate parking: West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service staff with one of their service vehicles-2

22 Oct 2024

New film highlights the dangers of school gate parking

School pupils across Leeds are asking parents, carers and the wider community to rethink their travel habits on the school run, with the help of a new short film. 

Highways Schools

Consultation launches to improve active travel around Crossgates: Barwick Road cropped

16 Sep 2024

Consultation launches to improve active travel around Crossgates

Local residents, schools and businesses are being asked to feedback on proposals to improve walking and cycling routes around the Crossgates area. 

Connecting Leeds Highways

Armley Town Street: Highway proposals aim to improve public transport and active travel journeys: Armley Town Street - Gelder Road junction visualisation

19 Jul 2024

Armley Town Street: Highway proposals aim to improve public transport and active travel journeys

The £2.91m proposals aim to reduce bus delays whilst improving the street environment for visitors and shoppers with wider pavements, planting and landscaping and more crossing points to encourage active travel journeys.

Connecting Leeds Highways Transport

Public consultation announced on highways proposals along the A64: A64 bus route cropped

16 Jul 2024

Public consultation announced on highways proposals along the A64

Leeds City Council and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority announce a period of public engagement for proposals to improve journeys on the A64.

Connecting Leeds Transport Highways

Ten years since the Grand Depart: A weekend of cycling celebrations: Leeds City Council's safe and sustainable travel team with Dawn Barrett's sister

09 Jul 2024

Ten years since the Grand Depart: A weekend of cycling celebrations

Leeds was riding high over the weekend as it marked the 10th anniversary of Yorkshire’s unforgettable staging of the Tour de France Grand Depart.

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