Work to start on Leeds-Bradford cycle super highway

[raveydavey]

Having observed the glacially slow pace of work taking place on the first section of the Keith Wakefield Super Highway, I can only assume that the council construction staff have secured a good hourly rate.
Work has been going on for 6 weeks or so and the short section between the Outer Ring Road and Killingbeck and it is nowhere near finished - only the first 50 yards appears to be in a usable state, with the rest of it nowhere near.
Worryingly it appears that the top surface is that low grip shiny black tarmac that the council seem to love to use (all very goid on a warm dry day, but a different story on a damp chilly morning...) and the road crossings look to leave a bit to be desired...

Is not specified in the design documents? I'm sure it was at one point not to use such rubbish surface.

Perhaps I've jumped the gun and it is yet to be finished off with a final top layer, but as it stands it just looks to be the same finish as the adjacent footpath...

[Cardiarms]

Racing ahead great guns on the thornbury roundabout.

[raveydavey]

The signs on the Outer Ring Road to Killingbeck section state that work is scheduled to end this coming Friday 27th March. To my admittedly untrained eye there still seems to be an awful lot of work to be done to get this section finished by then.
Its also worth noting that they don't appear to be putting dropped kerbs in where it crosses other roads - this seems very odd and if correct is likely to discourage use, especially from road bike users with their fragile and expensive wheels...

The outbound section betwixt Marsh Lane and Torre Road is also looking like raising concerns. The bus stops at the bottom are being moved out to accommodate the cycle path, narrowing the road for other users.
Further on, the "footpath" between the sloping retaining wall and the buslane is being resurfaced as the cycle lane. The problem with this is that none of the street furniture appears to be getting moved, meaning that the lampposts narrow an already quite narrow path frequently. This narrowness also appears to leave little room to pass slower cyclists slogging up the hill from Leeds...
The quality of the resurfacing here doesn't look great here either with clear joins between sections.

I will keep watching with interest...