City Centre Construction Update 6 December 2024
Above: New planting that has been installed on Godwin Street. Bradford Live can be seen in the background of the image.
Welcome to the weekly e-newsletter for the Bradford City Centre Walking and Cycling Improvements Scheme.
This edition includes everything you need to know about the Bradford City Centre Walking and Cycling Improvements Scheme for the coming days. We upload each weekly newsletter to the Future Bradford website. You can find copies of each e-newsletter on our news page if you would like to look back at previous editions.
Progress update
New planting installed on Godwin Street
The main news this week is on Godwin Street, where work to install the new planting in front of Bradford Live has started.
This area continues to be visually enhanced as part of wider efforts across Bradford city centre to create a greener, more inviting environment.See below a series of images that showcase progress in the city centre.
Above: Paving and planters on Bridge Street. The image shows a new circular ‘meeting circle’ and various planters filled with soil ahead of the installation of planting. Bradford City Hall can be seen in the background.
Other Progress
Good progress continues to be made with installing new planting and street furniture in key areas of the city centre.
As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, the raised planter on Broadway was prepared for the installation of a hedgerow. This week, the hedgerow has now been planted, contributing to the transformative works in the area.
Elsewhere, Market Street has seen new benches revealed following the removal of fencing, and work to install timber benches on planter walls on Broadway has started. The new raised planter has also been completed on Bridge Street and has been filled with soil ahead of soft landscaping (meaning adding decorative elements like plants and grass) being installed.
See below a series of images that showcase progress in the city centre.
Above: Newly installed hedgerow on Broadway. The hedgerow is attached to a supportive frame and is placed within soil on a raised planter.
Above: New timber benches on Broadway with black handles. The benches are attached to the planter walls that border areas of grass.
This week's construction, traffic, and access updates
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Cycle Superhighway works are still taking place west of the Gratton Road Junction. This work has provided wider footpaths and introduced cycle lanes. New bus shelters have also been put in place for bus routes travelling out of the city centre.
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What: Work on the new central reservation on Godwin Street between Thornton Road and Jacobs Well.
Traffic management: Little Horton Lane is closed to all traffic at its junction with Godwin Street. Traffic travelling in either direction on Godwin Street is not permitted to use the new pedestrian super crossing to make a U-turn.
Why: This change will provide more space for bus stops and routes into the city and an additional bus lane on Godwin Street.
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What: At Jacobs Well, works are continuing within and around the former roundabout at Jacobs Well.
Traffic management: There will continue to be occasional lane closures and traffic management around Jacobs Well.
Why: This work has seen Jacobs Well roundabout become a super crossing.
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What: Work is complete on Croft Street and Senior Way and the new lanes are open to traffic. Works to install the new central reserve are nearing completion on Manchester Road with the finishing touches such as soft landscaping underway.
Traffic management: Occasional off-peak lane closures will continue on Manchester Road from Croft Street to Jacobs Well.
Why: The works here are to create an additional lane on the gyratory section of Croft Street in each direction and a new cycleway on Manchester Road.
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What: We are nearing completion of works on both sides of Lower Kirkgate, to construct a new cycleway and footway.
Traffic management: Market Street is now closed to traffic at its junction with Kirkgate/Lower Kirkgate/Cheapside. The new traffic-light controlled pedestrian crossing is now in operation.
Why: The works here are to widen the junction to Canal Road, to allow for improved cycle lane provision, and build a new bus shelter. This work will also create a new crossing link into the city centre at Cheapside.
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What: The installation of new drainage, kerbs and new carriageway, cycleway and footways will continue on Hall Ings.
Traffic management: Well Street and the section of Vicar Lane between Great Cross Street and Hall Ings is only open to buses and authorised traffic and the new Cyclops junction at Well Street/Vicar Lane/Hall Ings/Leeds Road is now operational. Hall Ings is now permanently reduced to one lane of traffic westbound between the junction with Vicar Lane and the junction with Drake Street.
Why: The work on Well Street has re-opened the road as a bus route, while the work on Vicar Lane has allowed for the reconnection of Vicar Lane to Hall Ings via the new ‘CYCLOPS’ junction.
Find out more
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