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1. Early Interventions along the Alwoodley to Leeds route Transforming our bus network — New bus lanes and/or traffic regulation Transforming our bus network As part of our Connecting Leeds vision for orders may impact parking, specifically Alwoodley Lane This map highlights three key the city, Leeds City Council and its partners on-street parking – including West Yorkshire Combined opportunities to help deliver quicker Authority and the bus operators – are Our latest proposals bus journeys and more reliable services planning significant investment in our We’ve taken the feedback into along Harrogate Road, from Moortown transport network. consideration and have carried out further Wigton Lane Corner to Alwoodley Gates. analysis and work on the proposals. We have ambitious plans that will give Alwoodley northbound people much more appealing alternatives We have also identified some specific to the car by making bus services quicker improvements that could be delivered Sandmoor Lane and more reliable, while also ensuring that more quickly, so that the benefits can journeys on foot or by bike are more be seen earlier. convenient, attractive and safer. This consultation focuses on those The first stage of our plans involves improvements. investment in five key bus routes across the city – including the route between Have your say Lord Darcy Primley Park View Alwoodley and Leeds, through Moor Please take a few minutes to review Allerton, Moortown, Chapel Allerton, the materials we are presenting, which Chapeltown and Sheepscar. communicate the proposed ‘early A61 interventions’ along this route. Bus services are regularly delayed by The plan above indicates the extent significant traffic congestion along this route, We have offered further justification and of the area covered by the main map and improvements are needed to provide more detail than when we last presented better facilities for pedestrians and cyclists. proposals for this route. Primley Park Avenue Continuing the conversation about You can share your views online at transport services that started in 2016, www.leeds.gov.uk/connectingleeds, by earlier this year we held a public completing a feedback form or by talking consultation on some of our plans for this to a member of staff. Belvedere Avenue route, to allow you to give us your views Nursery Lane as a bus user, cyclist, motorist, pedestrian, If you have any questions, would like to Alwoodley southbound business owner or local resident. We receive more information by post, or would received over 4,500 contributions to the like a large print or braille copy of these public consultation. materials, please contact us. Shadwell Lane What you told us Next steps Lingfield Drive We received a wide range of comments We will use the feedback we receive to A6120 and other contributions. Respondents refine the proposals before we begin the highlighted a variety of issues, more detailed design work and appoint a opportunities, benefits and drawbacks contractor to build the scheme. Ring Road associated with the proposals. Outer BP petrol We hope to begin construction in the first station Many people recognised that the proposals half of 2019. Shadwell Lane would benefit buses and bus users. They A6120 also acknowledged that the scheme could We aim to undertake public consultation on benefit cyclists and pedestrians. our updated proposals for the rest of the Alwoodley to Leeds route later this year. Concerns around the Alwoodley to Leeds route centred on the following: We also aim to undertake public consultation on the latest proposals for King Lane Stonegate Road — Bus lanes, and the re-allocation of road Alwoodley Park & Ride in early 2019. M&S Foodhall space from cars to buses, could cause Moortown Corner Street Lane delays for general traffic Street Lane Moortown Corner — Slow moving traffic, and additional Scott Hall Road buses serving the route, could impact Street Lane air quality For further information visit Join the conversation www.leeds.gov.uk/connectingleeds #ConnectingLeeds .