Connecting Airedale
Connecting Airedale Transport Improvements
The ‘Connecting Airedale’ Transport Improvement Project is being developed through a partnership between Bradford Council, Metro and the Airedale Partnership. The recently published Airedale Masterplan (see link) gained widespread support from local residents and businesses and Connecting Airedale is a key element in the delivery of the Masterplan.
The Project’s main aim is to address transport problems in a sustainable way to improve the safety and efficiency of the local transport system for all users. This is of critical importance for the regeneration of this regionally important area which will lead to more, and better, jobs and houses.
There are five stages to Connecting Airedale but all are at an early point in their development and require Government Department for Transport funding for their progression. The schemes indicated in the documents accessed via these web pages are at the concept stage and are likely to change as a result of the scheme development and consultation process. As such they should not be viewed as definitive proposals. The Stages are as follows:
Provided that the Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Transport Board and the Department for Transport give their support to the Project, and there is acceptance of the proposals from local residents and businesses, it is intended to deliver Stages 1,2 and 3 by 2014 and Stage 4 and Keighley Transport Improvements post 2014. The longer timescale for the latter stages is due to the likely Government funding availability for major schemes not being sufficient to deliver all the stages in a shorter timeframe. Submissions have recently been made to the Regional Transport Board seeking their support for the five stages of the proposals and the outcome of these will be known soon. It should be noted that the Project will be in competition with many other worthwhile transport schemes from across the region and so there is no certainty to the outcome of this process.
More details about the background to the Project and each of the stages mentioned above are contained in the documents accessed by the links below. These will be added to as the Project progresses. Please note that information related to Stages 2 – 4 and Keighley Transport Improvements is limited at this time due to their being at a very early stage of development. Consultations on the principles of the overall Project, and on the details of Stage 1, will be commencing in early 2009. Watch out for a special feature on Connecting Airedale in a future edition of Community Pride as this will be the beginning of this consultation process.
