"Official Opening" is just there for those in the council to have their picture taken alongside a section of it. Whilst telling everyone look at what they got done.
Doesn't mean the work is finished.
Like I say, it's from no more reliable a source than the grapevine, but there is no way whatsoever that they're going to have the amount of work that needs doing on York Road alone done in 10 days even if they were to work 24/7 on the CSH.
I'm really struggling to understand the slow rate of work and particularly the piecemeal attitude towards the construction - we'll start a bit here, then start something else up here, then something else over here, leaving a trail of unfinished work behind them. I can only assume it's because the council are doing the work themselves. The section past Asda is still unfinished, six months after they started it and there is precious little evidence of any meaningful recent work there.
Has anyone seen the appalling and potentially dangerous changes being put in Leeds bound opposite what was the Dog and Gun?
The street scene there was a wide pavement with intermittent painted parking bays (although most of the houses have drives), then a bus/cycle lane and two normal traffic lanes. The (unfinished) scheme from what I could see between all the cones now seems to consist of a narrowed pavement, then the CSH, then a fairly continuous parking bay for residents, then the bus/cycle lane and normal traffic lanes.
Which means anyone cycling in the CSH looks like they are going to be in danger of car doors being opened on them for the full length of this section! Whilst also watching for people pulling off their drives at the same time... Who on earth signed this off?
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