Neville Street, Leeds has just completed a £4.6 million transformation to create a gateway that the city can be proud of. Owned by Network Rail and developed through a partnership between Leeds City Council and Yorkshire Forward.
The programme of improvements, entitled 'Light Neville Street', aims to upgrade the tunnel using innovative engineering and acoustic techniques, including sound-absorbing wall-panels and a new lighting scheme. The improvements will also widen the current footpaths by a total of 1.25m (0.75m on the west wall and 0.5m on the east wall) making it a safer environment for people with disabilities to move along the street.
Robust, graffiti-resistant, anodised aluminium wall panels will contain an innovative sound-absorbing material called QuietStone, used in the Channel Tunnel and the London Underground to manage sound-levels.
A new lighting scheme incorporating thousands of LEDs, will improve light levels in the tunnel. Alongside this an audio installation will be created to soften the traffic noise experienced in the tunnel. A complimentary lighting scheme installed on the west wall, will subtly remind drivers to watch their speed, whilst improving security in the tunnel by contributing to a lighter, brighter environment added to existing CCTV cameras at either end of the tunnel.
Image courtesy of the Neville Street website
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