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Balfour Beatty announces completion of £22.7 million York infrastructure project

City of York Council, and contractors Balfour Beatty, are pleased to announce the outer ring road works on the A59, which formed part of the new Poppleton Bar Park&Ride site, are officially complete.

The £22.7 million pound project, 70% part funded by the government, was created in partnership with contractors Balfour Beatty and designers CH2M Hill and delivered significant improvements to the outer ring road.

In addition to this, a new Park&Ride was created at Poppleton, and a larger facility created near to the previous Askham Bar Park&Ride site.

Cllr David Levene, Cabinet Member for Transport, said: “The £22.7 million project represents one of the largest single investments in York’s transport infrastructure since the northern ring road was built in the 80s.

“This has been our stated priority for the last three years and builds on our existing portfolio of Park&Rides sites. This is critical for York’s future economic prosperity and environmental wellbeing and we are delighted to be delivering this major improvement.”

Tony Clarke, head of transport at City of York Council, said: “We’d like to thank those living and working nearby for their patience throughout the period of the works, which are now complete.

“This was a hugely important scheme: the route is used by over 40,000 vehicles every day, making this one of the busiest junctions in York.

“The project will help to minimise congestion in the city and provides a much improved and safer access to local businesses on Northfield Lane.”

Eddie Tribe, North East Delivery Unit managing director, Balfour Beatty said; “It is a great pleasure to hand over these fantastic new Park&Ride sites to City of York Council.

“Working closely with our customer, these challenging projects were successfully completed in heavily trafficked areas, with Askham Bar having the additional challenge of being constructed on a reclaimed landfill site. These new Park&Ride sites will ease congestion and provide people with improved journeys into York city centre.”

Will Pearson, First York business manager, said: “This is great news for customers using the new Park&Ride site at Poppleton. Reliability is crucial to our customers and I’m sure that with the great service, frequent journeys and new, electric, luxury buses, we can encourage even more people to use Park&Ride.”

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