More than £3 million will be spent improving a traffic bottleneck on the main route between Bradford and Leeds.

Traffic signals and bus lanes will be installed at the Thornbury Barracks roundabout, between the Thornbury gyratory and the Leeds outer ring road and central running lanes will go through the roundabout to ease jams.

Facilities for pedestrians and cyclists will also be improved.

Leeds City Council won cash for the scheme from the Department for Transport’s £170 million bottleneck-busting Pinch Point Fund.

The bid was backed by Bradford Council, transport authority Metro and bus companies.

Bradford Council’s principal engineer for transport planning, Joe Grint, said the Leeds-Bradford corridor was a “critical link” in the region.

He said: “At peak times traffic queueing back from the Thornbury Barracks impacts on the Thornbury Gyratory junction in Bradford and beyond on to Leeds Road and Leeds Old Road. These are major radial routes into the city centre.”

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