Leeds Inner Ring Road

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Our tour starts at the eastern end of the Inner Ring, here on the A64 York Road, because that's a good place for me to get off the bus. Welcome to a two hour walk around the northern fringe of central Leeds.

This view faces west, from the start of the off-slip from the A64 westbound down to the Woodpecker Junction and Marsh Lane. Ironically, the pub that the junction was named after, the Woodpecker, was demolished to build this sliproad. In the mid-distance are two parallel flyovers; one for westbound traffic, and slightly higher up and much older, one for eastbound traffic. Eastbound is the last few yards of the A64(M), which terminates as the sliproad back up from the Woodpecker Junction joins. Westbound is plain-vanilla A64.