The A647 is an
A road
A roads may be
*motorways or freeways, usually where the local word for motorway begins with A (for example, ''Autobahn'' in German; ''Autostrada'' in Italian).
* main roads or highways, in a system where roads are graded A, B and sometimes lower c ...
in
West Yorkshire,
England that begins in
Leeds and ends in
Halifax. The road is long.
Route
The road begins at the Armley Gyratory and goes via
Armley, by-passes
Stanningley and
Pudsey, then onwards via
Thornbury Thornbury may refer to:
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*Thornbury, Victoria
* Thornbury railway station, Melbourne
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to the edge of
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
city centre.
The road then becomes part of the Bradford's Inner Ring Road (''Croft Street'') heading through
Great Horton and up to
Queensbury ( above sea level) before heading down hill via
Boothtown to Halifax town centre.
History
In June 2016 the CS1
Cycle Superhighway opened from Bradford to Leeds, for the most part following the corridor of the A647. However unlike similarly named schemes in the Netherlands and London, this route relies on allocated lane space within the vehicle carriageway which has led to criticism over its effectiveness from cycling and transport consultants.
Stanningley bypass
The road is a stretch of
dual carriageway
A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...
on the western edge of
Leeds. The first section (Dawson's Corner to Richardshaw Lane) was built in the late 1960s and from there to Bramley/Armley in the early 1970s to ease traffic congestion along Stanningley Road, forming part of the
Leeds Outer Ring Road. Prior to this the A647 passed through the centre of Stanningley along the line of the present
B6157.
It is notable for the fact that it had
Britain's first
High Occupancy Vehicle Lane (HOV lane).
References
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Roads in Yorkshire
Transport in West Yorkshire
Transport in Leeds