noseyrosie
22-10-2004, 22:01
If anyone else is interested, there's a complaints form on the SHeffield City Council website - http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/transport-and-highways/transport-planning/sheffield-buses/busquestionnaire
Anyway. indulge me. I hate buses - here's the story. I wonder. I this bus service really acceptable? I may not moan about buses for a good few weeks now - this might get it out of my system !!
I'm a 6th form student at Tapton school in Fulwood. Every day I used to get the number 14 bus from near my house on Upper Valley Road, Heeley (bus stop at the end of Albert Road on Carrfield Road), and then the number 51 from Arundel Gate. I used to be able to get on the 14 at around 8:20 am (it was nearly always punctual), and then catch a 51 bus, and be at school by 9am. Since the bus changes, the replacement for the 14 - the number 33 - never turns up on time, if at all (they are often missed out), and to get this, or the circular 1 which runs a similar route, would mean getting to school at least half an hour later - as our school starts at 9am this is not an option. Instead I have to walk almost half a mile to Chesterfield Road, which is served reasonably well by the number 20, 25 and 25a buses, although at the rush hour there is usually a half an hour gap between buses from around 8-8.30 am. I have not been on time to school once since the beginning of term, despite leaving the house half an hour earlier than last year.
My journey now takes over an hour, as the 51 buses (timetabled for every 10 minutes), which are normally a very reliable and frequent service, are often late or missing in the mornings, which is a huge problem - if there is a gap of half an hour and one bus turns up in town 10 minutes before the start of school, the buses are packed full of rowdy kids, who will become late nearly every day. THis time of day on this route needs to be focussed on - the 51 bus serves Tapton school as well as it's 6th form, and also King Edwards upper and lower schools, along with the whole of the traffic for the university, hospitals, and workers in Broomhill and Crosspool.
I used to get the number 2 circular bus home from Fulwood Road. This was an invaluable service for students of Kind Edwards, Notre Dame, Tapton, Silverdale, High Storrs and Abbeydale Grange schools, and yet it has been severely re-routed so that it now serves none of these schools, and the students, who used to catch it now have to get two buses every day. This includes 11 year old students who will not get home until after dark in the winter. There is now no other connecting bus between this area of a high concentration of secondary schools with large catchment areas - and our area of the city.
I have to get a 51 bus to the bottom of the Moor after school, and wait for a 33 or a 1. I regularly wait for an hour or so for these buse. Not only have these buses been reduced to a timetabled 1 or 2 times an hour, if they are missed out or late, it's a long time to be waiting. It is over an hour's walk to Heeley from Fulwood, and up to an hour and a half on the bus - this does not seem to add up.
The bus service to Heeley Green - Meersbrook - Norton Lees is simply unacceptable. Our old bus, the number 14 (which, in all fairness, was very infrequent compared to other services, like the 60 or the 41, at only every 20 minutes) was re-routed to Woodhouse, which has roughly 30 buses an hour timetabled to that area. We have a maximum of 3 timetabled buses an hour, in a very actively used bus route, with a high proportion of elderly and young people using it. We also now have no buses - absolutely squat - after 6pm. To get anywhere after, basically, 'tea-time', I have to walk in the dark down Valley Road - not somewhere that is regarded as a very safe through route for young people, with a lot of dark alleys and old factory buildings.
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Anyway. indulge me. I hate buses - here's the story. I wonder. I this bus service really acceptable? I may not moan about buses for a good few weeks now - this might get it out of my system !!
I'm a 6th form student at Tapton school in Fulwood. Every day I used to get the number 14 bus from near my house on Upper Valley Road, Heeley (bus stop at the end of Albert Road on Carrfield Road), and then the number 51 from Arundel Gate. I used to be able to get on the 14 at around 8:20 am (it was nearly always punctual), and then catch a 51 bus, and be at school by 9am. Since the bus changes, the replacement for the 14 - the number 33 - never turns up on time, if at all (they are often missed out), and to get this, or the circular 1 which runs a similar route, would mean getting to school at least half an hour later - as our school starts at 9am this is not an option. Instead I have to walk almost half a mile to Chesterfield Road, which is served reasonably well by the number 20, 25 and 25a buses, although at the rush hour there is usually a half an hour gap between buses from around 8-8.30 am. I have not been on time to school once since the beginning of term, despite leaving the house half an hour earlier than last year.
My journey now takes over an hour, as the 51 buses (timetabled for every 10 minutes), which are normally a very reliable and frequent service, are often late or missing in the mornings, which is a huge problem - if there is a gap of half an hour and one bus turns up in town 10 minutes before the start of school, the buses are packed full of rowdy kids, who will become late nearly every day. THis time of day on this route needs to be focussed on - the 51 bus serves Tapton school as well as it's 6th form, and also King Edwards upper and lower schools, along with the whole of the traffic for the university, hospitals, and workers in Broomhill and Crosspool.
I used to get the number 2 circular bus home from Fulwood Road. This was an invaluable service for students of Kind Edwards, Notre Dame, Tapton, Silverdale, High Storrs and Abbeydale Grange schools, and yet it has been severely re-routed so that it now serves none of these schools, and the students, who used to catch it now have to get two buses every day. This includes 11 year old students who will not get home until after dark in the winter. There is now no other connecting bus between this area of a high concentration of secondary schools with large catchment areas - and our area of the city.
I have to get a 51 bus to the bottom of the Moor after school, and wait for a 33 or a 1. I regularly wait for an hour or so for these buse. Not only have these buses been reduced to a timetabled 1 or 2 times an hour, if they are missed out or late, it's a long time to be waiting. It is over an hour's walk to Heeley from Fulwood, and up to an hour and a half on the bus - this does not seem to add up.
The bus service to Heeley Green - Meersbrook - Norton Lees is simply unacceptable. Our old bus, the number 14 (which, in all fairness, was very infrequent compared to other services, like the 60 or the 41, at only every 20 minutes) was re-routed to Woodhouse, which has roughly 30 buses an hour timetabled to that area. We have a maximum of 3 timetabled buses an hour, in a very actively used bus route, with a high proportion of elderly and young people using it. We also now have no buses - absolutely squat - after 6pm. To get anywhere after, basically, 'tea-time', I have to walk in the dark down Valley Road - not somewhere that is regarded as a very safe through route for young people, with a lot of dark alleys and old factory buildings.
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