WORK to create a £30 million Cycle Superhighway between Bradford and Leeds has reached Bradford city centre and that section is nearing completion.

From Thornbury gyratory there are spurs along Dick Lane and Gain Lane, then the route goes down Leeds Old Road, on to Barkerend Road, across at Shipley Airedale Road and down Church Bank, finishing at the bottom.

In addition from the gyratory the route takes cyclists straight down Bradford Road to Dawsons Corner and then on to Stanningley Bottom.

Work to build the 23km of segregated cycleway began in January and as of last month, the work was approximately 50 per cent complete and is scheduled to be finished by April next year.

The first sections are expected to be open this autumn and the remainder in the spring - although it is not yet known which timeframe the Bradford city centre section will fall in to.

In Bradford city centre as the route comes down Barkerend Road and on to Church Bank there is a two-way section, giving cyclists priority across side junctions.

One motorist Ian Jayne, a retired police officer who lives in Wrose, contacted the Telegraph & Argus about confusing give way road markings - showing double sets of lines within quick succession.

He said: "I came out of Upper Park Gate and saw the two sets of lines and my immediate reaction was a driver cannot conform to both at the same time as they are so close together.

"I find it hard to understand how a driver can avoid failing to give way to a cyclist after conforming to the first one as he would be in the cycle lane awaiting the traffic in the main road."

Ginny Leonard of CityConnect, the group behind the work, said that cyclists have the right of way along the superhighway, so there will be any number of junctions just like this along the new route when it is completed.

She added: "If you are approaching a junction, from minor to major, in most cases there is a set back speed table and give way markings, then there is a car length and then another give way marking. Cyclists will have priority across the mouth of the junction.

"We have looked at junctions on a individual basis along the route, but prior to it opening there will be quite a lot of information to be handed out to all users, re-educating people as to how to use this type of infrastructure."

The project is being funded by the Department for Transport, Bradford and Leeds councils and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Fourteen miles of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal towpath is also being upgraded between Shipley and Kirkstall as part of the overall scheme.