Leeds City Council has published £20.9m plans with a view to improve walking, cycling and public transport journeys along Woodhouse Lane, Blenheim Terrace, Blenheim Walk and Albion Street.
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00:00A consultation on the Woodhouse Lane Gateway scheme is running until the 16th of December,
00:06with views sought on these £20.9 million plans for protected cycle tracks, new pedestrian
00:12and cycle crossings, new greenery and wider pavements in the Woodhouse area of Leeds.
00:18Results from an initial consultation shaped Connecting Leeds' proposals, which span
00:23two kilometres in length and connect the University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University and Leeds
00:28Arts University, with leisure and hospitality businesses such as The Light, Merrion Centre
00:33and St John's Centre.
00:35The majority of funding will come from the City Regional Sustainable Transport Settlement,
00:40and £400,000 is from Section 106 developer contributions.
00:44Planners say over 1,000 cyclists use this stretch of road daily, but there have been
00:49161 reported casualties along the route since 2014.
00:53Here are some of your views on the proposals.
00:57No disrespect to cyclists out there of the world, scrap cycle lanes, that's what I say.
01:01Scrap the cycle lanes, scrap the bus lanes in my opinion.
01:04You want to have an electric car and own it, go for it.
01:06The country's in debt enough as it is, so £21 million for a strip like that in Woodhouse,
01:11I mean it's complete ludicrous.
01:12I'm an ex-taxi driver, and without a doubt when I come down that road, no, it shouldn't
01:18be finished.
01:19They should stop it as it is, it's not enough, there's not, as soon as they know they can
01:23walk, if they want to come down there they can walk, listen, that road's small enough.
01:27I think £20 million, that's a lot of money, £20 million on bike lanes in Woodhouse today
01:31which is not fair, maybe for uni students they would like it.
01:34Why are we spending £21 million on cycle lanes, yeah, we could have spent that on something
01:37better.
01:38Social housing, care, education, that's more and more important to me, there's pedestrianising.
01:44I don't think it's a bad thing, especially like the places you can rent, like the bikes
01:49and stuff.
01:50I understand how it's good for pedestrians, but 99% of people in Leeds are perfectly fine
01:57how it is anyway.