I drove through Leeds city centre at rush hour and got out feeling pretty smug 💁♀️
Driving through any city centre at rush hour when you don't have to is pretty much asking to spend ages sitting in traffic.
I set off from Armley, near where the LeedsLive office is located, at 5.10pm on a Wednesday evening, expecting to get immediately stuck in several traffic jams as I headed through Leeds, aiming to get onto the A660 to head to my destination. To get pretty much anywhere around Leeds, this means using the Armley Gyratory.
It wasn't the end of the world though - I waited for about five minutes from pulling up to the junction to getting on to it, and after that it's fine. I exited onto the A58 Inner Ring Road, and then looped around to exit onto Wellington Street and head towards the station. This was actually a great move - I'd joined Lovell Park Road mostly by accident and missed my turning but as I drove along the mostly clear Clay Pit Lane, I observed long lines of traffic queuing to merge onto the A61 and A64.
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