Leeds Cycle Superhighway Greenlit

[WiggyDiggy]

I'm taking it at face value the money is being spent appropriately.

[trophy]

would the millions of pounds being spent on these cycleways be better used to fill all the pot holes sunken trenches and grates.to benefit all road users and the 99.9% of cyclists who dont use these routes?

[Leodian]

This sign caught my eye today (May 26 2016). It is at the Kirkgate/New Market Street junction and is presumably to do with the cycle highway that is being built. Despite passing the site fairly often I have never noticed the sign before but I have now found that it is seen on the current Google Street View (dated 2016) so it may have been up some time, but I thought I would still mention it. The first photo shows the sign and its location and the second photo is a close-up of the sign.

It was not until I downloaded the second photo that I saw the "Has No Scrap Value" wording on the back of the other sign (on its front it states the same directions). I assume the wording does not refer to the cycle highway .

Cycle highway sign (?) on Kirkgate/New Market Street (taken May 26 2016).

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Cycle highway sign (?) at Kirkgate/New Market Street (taken May 26 2016).

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[trophy]

driving on elland by pass there is a cyclist on the road despite a dedicated cycle lane built at great expense?????

[jim]

Not as perverse as the cyclists I regularly encounter riding on the footway (illegally) where there is a new cycle track available.

[trophy]

never under estimate the stupidity of some people!

[harrym1byt]

I think the Cycle Superhighway was a total complete waste of money and caused massive hold ups to everyone during the building. Only very rarely have I seen a cyclist actually using it and many still use the road or footpath. It would have been much cheaper to have given every cyclist in Leeds a free bus pass.

[harrym1byt]

..and the bit they recently completed outside ASDA York Road is now being dug completely back up again, to lay pipes - you really couldn't make it up. I have though, yet to see any cyclist actually using any of it so probably no great inconvenience.

[sparky415]

Ive never seen a cyclist using it....

[Leodian]

The 'Bradford Southern entrance' part of this cycleway sign on Water Lane being so near to the 'Leeds Station Southern Entrance' amused me when I spotted it on December 19 2017. I did not follow the direction indicated but I assume it will lead to the path by the Leeds & Liverpool Canal that is near by. These are 2 photos that I took of the sign.

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