Nine bus laybys in six months, on live roads, without closing Cottingley down to do it. That was the brief.
Leeds City Council needed buses pulling clear of the running lane when stopping — a targeted fix for congestion that required building nine new laybys along the route. Civcon delivered it alongside Colas and wrapped the whole scheme up ahead of the six-month programme.
The work was phased from the start. Each layby followed the same sequence: earthworks, fibre reinforced concrete base, kerbing, paving, street lighting ducting and chambers, surfacing, and road markings. Tackling one section at a time meant traffic was never hit by the full extent of the works at once, and each completed layby was handed back before the next one started.
The utility adjustments added a layer of coordination that doesn’t show in the finished result but matters a great deal while the job is running — existing services had to be lowered and repositioned to fit the new layout, which requires precision and sequencing to avoid knock-on delays elsewhere in the programme.
None of that slipped. The scheme finished early, the road runs better for it, and Cottingley got nine new laybys without months of disruption to show for it.
