News on A660 Leeds

The ambitious plans along A660 Otley Road, Headingley Lane and Woodhouse Lane, have moved into delivery after the public consultation received a 62 per cent positive response.

The scheme aims to address a high number of casualties along the route whilst providing safer, alternative travel options for Leeds residents. Work includes safety improvements where the A660 meets key junctions; continuous crossings at side junctions, to give pedestrians and cyclists priority; widened pavements; additional benches to sit and rest; two-metre-wide segregated cycle paths, both inbound and outbound; improved bus stops and shelters, including relocating some stops; closing St Michael’s Road and Regent Park Avenue to motorised vehicles to prevent rat-running; six additional pedestrian crossings and improved landscaping along the route.

Construction of the £10.4million works, funded by Active Travel England, will be delivered in phases to reduce disruption, with work already underway between the junctions of Spring Bank Crescent and Richmond Road, near to The Golden Beam pub.

The cycle paths, in particular, are a welcome addition with 68 per cent of respondents backing the plans. The A660 is one of the busiest cycle routes in Leeds with over 1,000 cyclists using it daily. The cycle path will follow on from the recently completed Shaw Lane junction improvement scheme which includes a new-fully segregated cycle path.

The highways treatments are scheduled to complete in spring 2025. The schedule of work is:

Phase three: Ongoing, due to complete winter 2023.

A660 Headingley Lane from Spring Bank Crescent to Richmond Road

Phases four and six: Construction begins November 2023, due to complete summer 2024.

Phase 4: A660 Headingley Lane from Richmond Road to Victoria Road

Phase 6: A660 Woodhouse Lane from Hyde Park Corner to Cliff Road

Phase two: Construction begins early 2024, due to complete summer 2024.

Phase 2: A660 Otley Road from North Lane to Spring Bank Crescent

Phases seven, nine and 10: Construction begins early 2024, due to complete autumn/winter 2024.

Phase 7: A660 Woodhouse Lane from Cliff Road to Clarendon Road

Phase 9: A660 Woodhouse Lane from Clarendon Road to St Mark’s Road

Phase 10: A660 Woodhouse Lane/St Mark’s Road junction

Phases one and eight: Construction begins spring 2024, due to complete spring 2025.

Phase 1: A660 Otley Road from Shaw Lane to North Lane

Phase 8: A660 Woodhouse Lane/Clarendon Road junction

Phase five: Construction begins summer 2024, due to complete spring 2025.

A660 Headingley Lane/Hyde Park Corner/Victoria Road junction

For further information about each section, please visit the consultation materials.

Traffic management will be in operation whilst the works are carried out, and disruption will be kept to a minimum as possible, but there will inevitably be delays, and when temporary road closures are in operation, diversion routes will be well signed. To be kept up-to-date with any of the construction, our contractor Colas Ltd has an app, Hello Travaux, you can use. Download it by scanning the QR code below: