TWO of Huddersfield’s busiest roads are in line for a £2m upgrade.

Councillors will decide next week whether to improve the highways network around the new Kirklees College campus.

Officers have drawn up a £1.9m plan to deal with the huge increase in pedestrian traffic when the building near Huddersfield ring road opens to students next year.

Rutland didn’t seem to have high hopes: “I can see the ring road ending up like Firth Street – a street that resembles an assault course with the speed humps and all because a few students have little or no road sense.

“I like the part of the article that says that KMC ‘hope’ it brings X number of jobs because that is what KMC seem to exist on these days and little else.”

At least he liked part of the article!

hardupandfedup was having none of it: “Re-generation? Of what? Students, booze and other rubbish. What about the rest of the town?

“Road surfaces are terrible, streets full of weeds, rubbish and graffiti everywhere you look.

“How come all this road development around Chapel Hill wasn’t considered before throwing money at Kirklees College.

“Time to move to Calderdale.”

markmyword49 wasn’t happy with the logic that suggested the road changes were needed “to help cope with the large number of students going to and from the college”.

He asked: “And why pray is this needed? Why because in their wisdom Kirklees decided to allow the building of the new college away from the transport hub and outside the main shopping area.

“They’ll decide next week on the upgrade and funding. What a laugh. If they don’t give it the go ahead can you see the mayhem? It’s a done deal.

“As for it’s ‘flagship’ status. How long before it becomes a rusting hulk because of underfunding?

“His glass is always half full, eh?”

NorwegianBlue has a straightforward question: “Why aren’t the college paying for the improvements?”

grumpyguts remembers a bygone age: “When the ring road was constructed around 40 years ago, the idea of it was so that traffic could be quickly and safely routed around Huddersfield to avoid congestion in the town centre.

“The addition of endless traffic lights, crossings and other obstructive road furniture has resulted in ‘congestion by design’.”