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Explore the transformative Bingley Relief Road project from 1988 to 2003, focusing on its innovative design that reduced environmental impact, noise, and congestion while enhancing safety and town connectivity.
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Objectives of the scheme • Reduce the environmental impact to locals • Noise, fumes, vibration etc. • Improve safety through the town centre • Reduce congestion in the town centre • Improve links between the two halves of the town 1
Bingley Relief Road Park Road Advance Works • Designed by Clients Agent and tendered competitively • Outturn cost £18m • Constructed 1988 • Two new bridges Park Road and Dowley Railway • Leeds Liverpool canal diversion and retaining wall 1
Bingley Relief Road • Length 4.5 km • Structures 26 new • Design and Build Contract • Tendered for £50m • Constructed 2001—2003 • Bypass through the middle of the town • Construction of structures on over 900m of peat bog 1