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THERE’S not much to be happy about driving around Huddersfield’s increasingly jammed up and pothole riddled roads.
With public transport expensive and unreliable, congestion is on the rise as people continue to stick with the good old motor car to get around.
But with traffic queues costing the economy millions and causing worrying levels of pollution and misery, transport chiefs are under pressure to get our vehicles moving again.
After years of putting in restrictions to make traffic slow down highways are being opened up to allow traffic to speed up.
Kirklees Council has been limited to what it can do in recent years due to unprecedented cuts to its funding by government.
But now a £1 billion transport fund being managed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority on behalf of all five councils is helping to provide some investment to the area.
Here reporter looks at some of the biggest traffic busting schemes which will be on motorists’ lips during 2019. A CONTROVERSIAL plan as it involves the council forcibly taking parts of people’s gardens.
This project will see a number of junctions improved between Huddersfield ring road and the Ainley Top roundabout.
The council has already taken steps to get this going by purchasing and quickly demolishing a house near the roundabout to allow the road to be widened.
The crossroad at Edgerton, which along with north/south traffic handle a lot of cross town traffic between Birkby and Greenhead, is also set to be widened.
The other element of the plan is to tinker with the Cavalry Arms junction and to ban parking on Halifax Road from the Church of the Latter Day Saints up to Birchencliffe Hill Road.
Background work on this is likely to intensify in 2019 with diggers moving in early in 2020.