Bradford races against the clock to finish works in time for city of culture

Mass roadworks on Bridge Street in the city of Bradford in West Yorkshire, which is preparing to become the UK city of culture 2025. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

In a little over four months, Bradford takes the mantle of city of culture for 2025.

But the city is in a race against time to resolve an almost perfect storm of over-running civic works, delays to infrastructure refurbishment, crises with transport and uncertainty over one of the proposed flagship venues, which is causing something of a headache for the event’s organisers.