is it only me or is this country going mad ,why the hell on earth have they shut down shalesmoor ,i have just paid out £90 for road tax for my van to be insulted even more by being told ``is gone up`` i cant remember how much by as i was seething ,then on my way back to work i had to divert around shalesmoor gggrrrr .i use shalesmoor numerous times a day i have never found it to be any problems like stuck in traffic or in an accident ...sorry to be a pain but am i in the wrong?

After at least a decade of waiting, they ahve finally started building the final section of the Inner Ring Road, joining the end of Penistone Road at Shalesmoor to the Wicker and the Parkway.

This should improve traffic flows around the city, and make things easier in the long run. Unless they find a way of magicing (?) the new road in overnight, it will make things a bit difficult for several months.

Probably worth it in the end, though.

I've heard it's going to be like that down there for 18 months. Are there any plans to close Corperation street?

Judging by the sheer amount of work and changes involved (there is a very detailed map to download on the council website), I would image that both Corporation Street and Nursery Street will end up being closed temporarily at some point over the next 18 months.

What utter chaos that will cause.

I agree though that it does look like it will actually improve traffic flow - something the council have been very poor at in recent years.

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/irr

and

http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/irr/traffic-management

are good sources of information.

Originally posted by MrHelicopter
After at least a decade of waiting...
*At least*. I wrote to the Council in 1984, and we'd been waiting more than 10 years then!

Originally posted by jgharston
*At least*. I wrote to the Council in 1984, and we'd been waiting more than 10 years then!

Why did you wait "more than 10 years" before writing to the Council? Seems it takes longer for you to write a letter than it does to get a road built!

Originally posted by redrobbo
Why did you wait "more than 10 years" before writing to the Council? Seems it takes longer for you to write a letter than it does to get a road built!
Well, I was 15 then, so *I* hadn't been waiting 10 years, but when investigating why the Inner Ring Road only went around half the city centre I found out that the Council had intended to build it all the way around. St. Mary's Gate, Hanover Way, Netherthorpe Road had been done sometime in the early 1970s or so, so by 1984 it was more than ten years since the Inner Ring Road had been started. I wrote to the Council asking when it was likely to be completed, and suggested to them a route[1]. They replyed saying, effectively, that it was shelved indefinately.

I asked again in 1994, mentioning the route I'd suggested earlier, and they said something like: a good idea, but there's a conservation area on that route now, so we're going to go via Shalesmoor and behind Corporation Street; and cut through the Wicker, go over the canal and make a new junction with the Parkway.

[1] Hoyle Street, Ball Street, Mobrary Street, Nursery Street, Blonk Street to Sheaf Square. I'll scan in my maps at some point and upload them.