Remembering the time cars drove down Briggate
![Leeds, Briggate, June 10, 1968. New traffic signal gantries.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/imagefetch/http://www.lep.co.uk/webimage/1.9731039!image/image.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&trim=&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![Leeds, Briggate, June 10, 1968. New traffic signal gantries.](/img/placeholder.png)
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.
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.