The Leeds Outer Ring Road is a main road that runs around most of the perimeter of the city of
Leeds
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,
West Yorkshire
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,
England
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. The
ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop, bypass or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city, or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist i ...
is approximately long and consists of single and dual carriageways. The road is not a loop and so is not a true ring road, although it is designated as such.
The road begins in
Belle Isle and ends in
Thorpe Park, Leeds
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at junction 46 of the
M1 motorway. It begins in Belle Isle as an un-numbered road and goes through to Beeston. It is then designated the A6110 between
Beeston and
Bramley a dual carriageway, before
running concurrently with the Stanningley By-Pass
A647 also a dual carriageway but with
grade separated junctions.
For the rest of the way between
Farsley and
Colton the road is the A6120 and it is a mixture of single and dual carriageway. The ring road ends at Junction 45 of the M1.
There are future proposals for the complete dualling of the congested Outer Ring Road but they were not given priority in the Leeds Transport Plan.
Ring Road names
The road name of the ring road reflects the district it passes through. The table below states the name of the ring road and the number of carriageways in each district.
''As A6110''
*
A643 road
The A643 is a main road between Leeds and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.
Its eastern end is at the Armley Gyratory roundabout on the western edge of Leeds City Centre. The road then goes through:
* Beeston
* Churwell
* Morley
* Br ...
Ring Road Beeston / Elland Road ''There is a brief concurrency where the A6110 and A643 run together as 40mph dual carriageway for about 1/2 mile''.
''As A6120''
*
A64 road Ring Road Seacroft ''There is a brief concurrency where the A6120 and A64 run together as 70mph dual carriageway for about 1/2 mile''.
*
A63 road Selby Road ''The former A63 between M1 J46 and Whitkirk Roundabout was redesignated A6120 in 2001''.
East Leeds Orbital Route
After a protracted planning process,
Leeds City Council
Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of l ...
announced in June 2018 the awarding of contracts for the East Leeds Orbital Route (ELOR) which runs from
Thorpe Park (adjacent to junction 46 of the
M1) to the present ring road near
Red Hall, just to the west of its intersection with the
A58.
The route cost approximately £120 million and is a dual carriageway throughout, with roundabouts intersecting with roads to the east of Leeds. The route was opened on 22nd August 2022.
References
External links
A6120 Leeds Outer Ring Road study - Leeds City Council
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Transport in Leeds
Transport in West Yorkshire
Roads in Leeds
Ring roads in the United Kingdom