There's some excellent new cycle infrastructure in Leeds - only buses, taxis and bikes can now use Leeds Bridge.
[Image taken 1.12.22] Coffee table, Moda, New York Square, Leeds. [Please note: location is approximate] Overview of the changes taking place at City Square. Positive language (“transform”, “people-first environment”) that starts from the
[Image taken 1.12.22] Coffee table, Moda, New York Square, Leeds. [Please note: location is approximate] There was lots of female empowerment in the shared spaces in Moda. But this copy of Yorkshire Business Woman
[Image taken 1.12.22] Moda, New York Square, Leeds. [Please note: location is approximate] Alas no images of the cycle parking. It was unusable. Tiered racks which were too close to each other and to the wall - you couldn't have loaded a
[Image taken 1.12.22] Moda, New York Square, Leeds. Art at the entrance to a toilet. Moda is a build to rent scheme: https://modaliving.com/live/location/leeds. Other image here today: #188359. Other images today: #188355.
New bike stands on Platform 6 seen from Platform 5.
New bike stands on Platform 6 seen from Platform 5.
New bike stands on platform 6.
Beryl Burton mural at Woodrup Cycles, Leeds
New road improvements here including bike stands. This replaces the stands which have gone from Kirkgate.
Tweet of video of a motor vehicle blocking the cycle lane, rider struggles to get past as lorry passes on the road.
https://twitter.com/Petercl04558275/status/1514642938017587204?s=20&t=jSAY_WEEZBPDZbM56oYSRQ
Tweet about lots of motor vehicles parked on a very poorly marked cycleway (it looks like road side parking) - but the tweeter damages their own argument by cycling on the footway while recording the video and coming very close to
New barrier. Not sure why they have put this access barrier here.
New path on Arthur's Rein around a new development site.
Slalom barrier by new development on Arthur's Rein.
Bridge over the Wyke Beck.
Advanced warning for NCN668 left turn.
The obvious is to continue on Meanwood Road but the NCN route continues through a park.
Sheepscar, Leeds (England, United Kingdom)
Route through Meanwood Urban Farm. Careful of visitors.
Awkward steps / ramp and barrier.
Signs and subway under M1 motorway.
New signpost near Kirkstall Forge.
New sign at the junction of 2 paths. Sign to the right says "Pollard Lane".
Free bike pump and tools.
Cycle box and painted lane.
View from Merrion House.
New cycle lanes on traffic free Cookridge Street.
New crossing from Cookridge Street - now closed to traffic - to Park Row.
Tour de France Grand Depart start line.
New cycle lanes crossing Calverley Street.
New cycle lanes and bike stands.
Cycle lanes in Leeds city centre. View entering Park Square from Westgate.
New cycle lanes in Leeds city centre.
Slalom gate near Killingbeck Fields
Start of Rounday Park route to left and continue right for Temple Newsam and Garforth.
Bollards before bridge and NCN sign.
A-Frame at entrance to Wyke Beck Woods.
NCN66
Location: Killingbeck, Shadwell (England, UK)
Cut back between Halton Moor and Temple Newsam
Cross Green Lane
Location: , Knowsthorpe (England, UK)
Cut back and litter pick in Cross Green
[Image taken 2.8.21] A Northern Rail service to Leeds from York via Starbeck - the Streetview station shown - and Harrogate. Flexible space (tip up seats and the 'supports' that protruded from the white item have been removed at least on
St John's Place modal filter from 1985. Station Parade was a rat run before these bollards went in.
Locks on the Aire Valley Towpath
Cyclists have a better arch to the right.
Footbridge linking two parts of a housing development, I think.
Cycle parking at Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds
Vandalised map of the Kirkstall Abbey area of the Aire Valley Towpath
[Editor: We understand this sign has since been removed by Canal River Trust.]
Cyclists on NCN route 66 should leave the Aire Valley Towpath here for a parallel road.
Cyclists on NCN route 66 can fork left to rejoin the Aire Valley Towpath
Speed ramps on this industrial road (NCN route 66) parallel to the Aire Valley Towpath
Cyclists on NCN route 66 should use this road rather than the Aire Valley Towpath - because of the poor surface, I think.
Cyclists on NCN route 66 should leave the Aire Valley Towpath here for a parallel road.
The Aire Valley Towpath passing beneath the Skipton/Ilkley railway lines.
Lock on the Aire Valley Towpath
Lock on the Aire Valley Towpath
Link from the Aire Valley Towpath
Link from the Aire Valley Towpath
Link from the Aire Valley Towpath (and tent)
The Aire Valley Towpath towards Leeds station
Sign on the Aire Valley Towpath
Link from the Riverside Way Bridge to the Aire Valley Towpath
The new Riverside Way Bridge is being obstructed by greenery.
Non-existent link from the canal towpath and the new Riverside Way Bridge to Whitehall Road.
Weird and dangerous to have such a short section of on-road cycleway - either protect it properly, have some shared-use, or buy a few metres of land to the left.
Start of off-road cycleway west of Leeds station
The Leeds station Cyclepoint is now a branch of Evans Cycles.
Wide crossing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.
New two-way cycleway, Leeds
New cycleway under the railway in Leeds.
End of the new section of Cycle Superhighway 2 parallel to the railway into Leeds.
New two-way section of Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Cut-through below the railway, Leeds.
Crossing on new two-way section of Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
New two-way section of Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Cycle Superhighway 2 on Marsh Lane, Leeds.
Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Cycle Superhighway 2 in Leeds is a good direct commuting route, but not much is made of the local connections.
Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Crossing on Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds, where it comes off the flyover.
Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds, crosses this flyover - the parallel routes are supposedly only footpaths.
Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds, goes over this flyover.
Lights where Cycle Superhighway 2 crosses to the flyover.
Cycle bridge over York Road, Leeds.
The Leeds guided bus route.
Bus stop on the Leeds guided bus route.
Cycle crossing on Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Cycle crossing over York Road, Leeds.
Cycle crossing on Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Cycle lights to allow cars to turn left off York Road, Leeds.
Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds.
Cycle Superhighway 2, Leeds, with annoying End of Cycle Route sign.
Segregated cycle path on Leeds Cycle Superhighway 2.
Segregated cycle path by Cross Gates Road, Leeds.
Crossings at the junction of York Road and Cross Gates Road.
There are quite a few of these signs to try to keep cars off Leeds Cycle Superhighway 2.
There are quite a few of these signs to try to keep cars off Leeds Cycle Superhighway 2 - they don't always work.
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