Long stretches of queues have built up around the city centre and particularly on Kirkstall Road as work to remove the Gelderd Road footbridge at Armley Gyratory is carried out.
Roads around the site have been shut as well while the works on bridge – which is now 50-years-old and has a narrow 1.8m wide footway – are undertaken.
A weekend of partial closures have been in place since Friday evening and remain so until 5.30am on Monday, meaning that drivers are likely to face disruption on Sunday too.
The A58 Wellington Road south east exit and Ingram Distributer south bound on Armley Gyratory will be closed during these hours with Leeds City Council mapping out a near 18-mile diversion.
Below are some pictures taken by our photographer today of the “absolute chaos”.
13. Kirkstall Road junction
All closed routes will re-open outside of the designated working hours. Photo: steve riding
14. Drone shot
Liam Sowden took this birds eye picture of the works on Armley Gyratory Photo: Sowden Drones/Liam Sowden
15. Bird's-eye view
The council said teams are currently on target to complete the replacement of the bridge by the scheduled time of 5am on Monday Photo: Sowden Drones/Liam Sowden