Overnight snow across the Bradford district brought rush hour chaos to the roads this morning.

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Motorists were particularly affected to the north of Bradford, with severe delays experienced outside of Bingley, Shipley, Wilsden and Allerton from 7.30am.

Although the roads quickly became clear of snow, the sheer volume of slow-moving traffic caused very bad delays.

Louise McCaul, Bradford Council’s highways divisional manager, said: “A full precautionary grit took place at 6pm last night across the district, which equates to around 1,300km.

“There was snowfall at 5am which had not been forecast and the gritting teams were mobilised immediately, starting their routes at 6am.

“Every member of available staff is dealing with the snow. We have had seven footpath gritters out in the city centre and around the district and 10 footpath clearance teams dealing with problem areas.

“Refuse lorries have also been used to collect and deliver grit and mechanical diggers are clearing snow which has drifted.

“Snow and wintry weather is always likely to affect the district and, despite the huge effort we put in to limit the impact, there remains the potential for it to cause delays.”

Motorists travelling to Bradford from Bingley and Wilsden were trapped in gridlocked jams for more than an hour, moving less then a mile in the time.

There were reports of queuing traffic and delays of up to 45 minutes on the A650 southbound between Bingley and Bradford. Police say there has not been an accident on the A650.

It is believed snow and ice on smaller roads is pushing traffic onto more major roads, a spokesman said.

Officers were directing traffic at Saltaire roundabout. There were also reports of treacherous conditions near the Flappit quarry.

It took one woman traveller three hours to get to Bradford city centre from Wilsden.

Two of those hours were spent in gridlocked traffic in the village, she said.

She added: “I’ve never seen it so bad, even last year when it was really bad snow.”

To the south of Bradford, motorists skidded and slipped their way off side roads in the Wyke, Wibsey and Bailiff Bridge areas.

Traffic on the main roads was much heavier than normal as drivers avoided lesser roads, which were untreated. Traffic was also crawling along Huddersfield Road, through Low Moor and Wyke, as the normal 25-minute journey between Brighouse and Bradford city centre took around an hour.

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