Remembering the time cars drove down Briggate

Stand there today and it's a pedestrian retail paradise but if you could wind the clock back to the 1960s, Briggate was a busy main road.
Leeds, Briggate, June 10, 1968. New traffic signal gantries.Leeds, Briggate, June 10, 1968. New traffic signal gantries.
Leeds, Briggate, June 10, 1968. New traffic signal gantries.

The Buchanan Report of 1963 proposed a two-tier system for Leeds, with cars below and people above - the raised walkway around the Bank of England building on King Street. There were even plans for a motorway-width road running past Leeds Town Hall. Happily, we managed to avoid all that but the following pictures show how the journey through out city - by car and on foot - has changed over the years.