Roadworks at Greengates junction
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Roadworks at Greengates junction
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 11 Jan 2022
The junction of New Line (A657) and Harrogate Road (A658) is being remodelled. Work has been going on for well over a year already and is nowhere near finished, and locals are getting rather annoyed about the delays, as the temporary 4-way traffic lights are increasing the congestion that the works are designed to ease. This view is looking along the new slip road that will avoid the traffic lights for traffic from Yeadon towards Calverley, but that only forms a small proportion of the throughput of the junction. How much it will actually reduce congestion is a moot point, but presumably traffic modelling has produced a positive cost-benefit ratio.
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