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Active Travel Fund Leeds
13th October 2023
2 mins read

Active Travel Fund £7.79m secured to improve and enable walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport journeys in Leeds

Five schemes in Leeds were successfully chosen from the Government’s £200million Active Travel Fund Tranche 4 pot and will be consulted on in due course. Leeds City Council has successfully been awarded funding for five schemes that will enable residents to choose more active and sustainable modes of travel and improve road safety for…
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HS2-Leeds
6th October 2023
1 min read

Response to government announcement to cancel HS2

High Speed 2 (HS2) is a non-departmental public body, wholly funded by the Secretary of State for Transport and sponsored by the Department for Transport. Leader of Leeds City Council, Councillor James Lewis said: “We are extremely disappointed about government’s decision to cancel HS2 and only cautiously welcome today’s announcements of investment in our…
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Tracey Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, with members of the Spencer Group team and students on work experience from Elliot Hudson College.
19th May 2023
3 mins read

White Rose Rail Station takes shape as Spencer Group delivers for partners

Rail infrastructure specialist Spencer Group is making significant progress on the construction of a £26.5 million station in South Leeds. Situated between Morley and Cottingley, the White Rose Rail Station will be located on the main Trans-Pennine route to Manchester via Huddersfield. It will be a two-platform station providing improved access to the adjacent…
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Armley Park Primary School
17th December 2021
2 mins read

Leeds schools get £100,000 of new bicycle and scooter storage

Nineteen schools across Leeds are receiving new bicycle and scooter storage, in a project worth £100,000. The schools will gain a total of 162 secure bicycle parking spaces and 200 scooter parking spaces. The project uses active travel funding allocated to Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority from the Department for Transport. Chapel…
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Stourton Park and Ride
24th September 2021
5 mins read

Buses from the past brought back to the future for Ministerial opening of UK’s first fully solar powered park and ride

On 16 September Stourton Park and Ride was officially opened by the Minister for future of transport and environment, Minister Rachel Maclean MP. Minister Maclean was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport on 14 February 2020. Stourton Park and Ride is the third park and ride site in Leeds…
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Hyde park edit active travel neighbourhood
13th November 2020
2 mins read

First ‘Active Travel Neighbourhood’ pilots across Leeds

Leeds City Council has unveiled its first trial active travel neighbourhoods with a range of measures that have been designed to make these residential areas of the city much more child, pedestrian and cycle friendly. This month will see active travel neighbourhoods (also known as ‘low traffic neighbourhoods’) introduced initially in Hyde Park and…
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