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The £112M Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase 2 (LFAS2) is progressing well according to the city’s council as a six month road closure begins today.

Leeds City Council has announced that strengthening works on Apperley Lane bridge will be completed tomorrow before the next phase of the work in the area…

The government has launched the long-awaited study into options for running High Speed 2 (HS2) trains to Leeds city centre.

The “HS2 to Leeds” study, as it has come to be known, was a £100M promise made in the Integrated Rail Plan (IRP), published by the Department for Transport (DfT) in…

The government has committed to “a reassessment of the evidence for better connecting Bradford and the case for a new station” as part of its study on bringing High Speed 2 (HS2) services to Leeds.

The promise comes as part of its response to the Transport Select Committee’s inquiry into the…

The Yorkshire Highway Alliance is on the hunt for contractors for its £360M major works contractor framework, which is for highways and transportation works worth over £7M.

The tender is being conducted by Leeds City Council on the behalf of the Yorkshire Highway Alliance, which also features City of Bradford Metropolitan…

Northern leaders have reacted furiously to claims prime minister Rishi Sunak is likely to revoke the promises for a full Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) promised by his predecessor Liz Truss.

One month ago the former prime minister promised a new 200km fully electrified line from Liverpool to Hull with a stop…

The benefits of Leeds’ newly opened dual carriageway go way beyond easing congestion in the city.

"Don’t call it a road, it’s a route,” Balfour Beatty portfolio director Neil Beck jibes after the suggestion that the “R” in Elor could possibly stand for road. In full, the acronym stands for…

The Department for Transport’s study that will look at connecting HS2 trains to Leeds will take between 18 months and two years, according to Transport for the North (TfN).

The West Yorkshire city was intended to be the terminus of the eastern leg of HS2, but with the release of the…

The East Leeds Orbital Route is now fully open after three years of construction.

The £173.5M project was originally due to be carried out by Carillion, however was reassigned to Balfour Beatty in 2018 after the contractor’s collapse. The scheme provides 7km of dual carriageway and 14km of dedicated cycleways, pedestrian,…

HS2 Ltd has not yet been instructed by the Department for Transport (DfT) to begin the promised investigations into how to bring the high-speed line to Leeds.

The West Yorkshire city was intended to be the terminus of the eastern leg of HS2, but with the release of the Integrated Rail…

Poor public transport connections in cities in the North of England is resulting in a loss of productivity worth more than £16bn a year, according to a new report.

Transport think tank Centre for Cities has released a new report, Measuring up: Comparing public transport in the UK and Europe’s biggest…