Cycle routes and improved public transport are two things planned by Leeds City Council as they hope to upgrade the roads around St James's Hospital.
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The council claims key junctions act as bottlenecks (above) but say widening Beckett Street and Burmantofts Street to create cycle and bus lanes will help (below).
Upgraded traffic lights will be more efficient and help improve traffic flow, giving buses priority.
Transport investment needed as northern services decline
Northern mayors and council leaders want more investment in transport after figures showed train services have got worse, despite the push of a Northern Powerhouse.
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Cities like Leeds, Sheffield and Hull were encouraged to work together both in rivalling London and the South East and to "take on the world", with more jobs and opportunities.
But five years on, doubt has been cast on just how successful the project has been, with transport being one key area that officials want to improve.
The number of cancelled and significantly late trains on TransPennine Express and Northern franchises more than doubled from 20,000 in 2014-15 to 47,000 in 2018-19. It meant that almost one in every 20 services was either cancelled or more than 30 minutes late arriving at its destination.
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Mayor of the Sheffield City Region Dan Jarvis, said the government should see the north as "an asset, not a liability" and said Westminster had "let the north down".
Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, said: "The northern authorities are working much more closely together and that's a real benefit.
"The real difficulty we have is that (transport) schemes are delayed and there's a real lack of commitment to rebalancing the economy."
People 'fed up with national situation', says councillor
A Leeds Liberal Democrat councillor says peoples' exasperation with national politics has led to voter apathy in her ward of Rothwell.
Diane Chapman was giving her opinion as the results came in after counting at Leeds Arena. Her party lost out to Labour, which retains control of the city council.
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I'm sure the national situation has played a role. Yes there are some pretty fed up people out there and we've certainly had that on the doorstep for the last few weeks.
Labour keeps control of Leeds
Labour holds on to Leeds City Council with 57 seats.
