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A650 BINGLEY RELIEF ROAD CONTEXT SENSITIVE DESIGN. Andrew Wingrove Structures Advisor Highways Agency UK. 1852 map. Aerial Photograph before the relief road. Church and Surrounding buildings. Saltaire Mill 1853 Painting. Bingley Mills Today. Bingley Mills Today. 1994 photographs.
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1852 map 1
Objectives of the scheme • Reduce the environmental impact to locals • Noise, fumes, vibration etc. • Improve safety through the town centre • Reduce congestion in the town centre • Improve links between the two halves of the town 1
Bingley Relief Road Park Road Advance Works • Designed by Clients Agent and tendered competitively • Outturn cost £18m • Constructed 1988 • Two new bridges Park Road and Dowley Railway • Leeds Liverpool canal diversion and retaining wall 1
Bingley Relief Road • Length 4.5 km • Structures 26 new • Design and Build Contract • Tendered for £50m • Constructed 2001—2003 • Bypass through the middle of the town • Construction of structures on over 900m of peat bog 1