Alternative travel options being encouraged in Leeds City Centre include walking, wheeling and cycling. Wheeling incorporates many methods for getting around, including using wheelchairs, mobility scooters, walking aids and travelling with a pram or pushchair. Goals for these proposals are to improve the design of city centre streets, making Leeds an easier place to get around and creating a more welcoming, safer environment for anyone that visits, or travels through the city.
Plans for improvements include: Widened pavements, making it safer and easier to walk around the city centre; safer and easier places to cross the road at key junctions, including the busy Merrion Street junction; new crossings for pedestrians and cycle users; opportunities for street cafes along Great George Street; protected cycle track, adding to the existing 10km of existing protected cycle track in the city centre; opportunities for improve greenery along the route.