Which is the worst road?

How long does it take to do that bit of jorney?

Worst for me is Sheffield Parkway getting in to sheffield in the mornings. The queues vary in length but can be very long. Journey time doubles from 30 mins to an hour or more. Im sure this isnt the worst road. The one from rotherham to sheffield passing through the wicker past all the car garages must be quite bad too which is why i never go this way. Ive never been this way in a rush hour so wouldnt know but ive been it other times and its been queued up which is what put me off.

In response to your question, I only encounter a couple of snarle-ups on the way to work each morning as I am fortunate enough not to have to travel into the city centre.

My journey from Crosspool to Shalesmoor requires me to travel up Lydgate Lane past the primarry school, where the lolipop man stops every second car in order to let the little sprogs cross the road. Combine mr two cars lolipop with the overweight mothers driving their 4WD cars the 300 yards from their house to the school and then double parking and we have chaos every morning.

The second congested road, justifying this rant (I have many more) is the upper part of Crookesmoor road above the junction with Barber road, where all the povety stricken students park there new cars making this road a single file option only. Combine the student parking with dithering dimwits going to work and countless mothers who having dropped their little loved ones at school drive around S10 aimlessly forming mobile chicanes in cars designed to cope with their 48 inch hips and we have the kind of chaos that can only be solved with the use of ................ (Mmmmmm thought better of it, the CIA or FBI might read this.)

The best route to work in the morning was the one I used to enjoy for a couple of years. It involves working from home, when my commute to work required me to walk down the stairs to put the kettle on and a couple of slices in the toaster.......

Parents dropping their kids off right outside the school door is the biggest problem. It'd be ok if they had to travel a long way to school and dropped sensibly, but they cause havok and half are about 5 mins max walk away from school.

Then we get speed bumps because the same parents that cause the traffic problems moan and moan about all the cars around schools.

My point exactly Foxy. I travel for an hour on two buses to get to my 6th form. I am perfectly capable of dragging myself out of bed at 6.45am and catching the half seven bus to get there in time. It gets me so mad when people say they've slept in until half eight and had their parents drive them all the way around the corner to the school gates! :mad:

To be honest the Parkway is a nightmare getting into town (unless it's half-term). Saville Street can get a little busy on the way in as can Corporation Sreet on the way out.

My all-time nightmare has to be Hannover Way between 4-30 and 5-30, drives me nuts, especially when a load of muppets end up in the wrong lanes on Ecclesall Road roundabout.

Bloke I know who lives in Rotheram parks up at meadowhell then gets the tram into town. I suppose he can do that as he works close to a tram route though.

Nomme

Ecclesall Road. Jam from one roundabout to the other.

Sorry to hear about all your sob stories about traffic jams, do as i do and cycle, there is not much danger involved cos all the motors are doing less than 5mph and i love ecclesall road cos that is one of the safest.
In case of any queries...... no i do not cycle on paths..yes i do have lights....yes i do wear a helmet...and yes i show every consideration to other road users whose council tax pays for us all to use the roads. It is just that i do not have to pay any excise duty to use the roads cos i do not have a combustion engine just pedal power.

Originally posted by garrence
Ecclesall Road. Jam from one roundabout to the other.

So call into my pub for a drink and wait for the traffic to subside!:D

I walk to work :D

But my wife drives my son to school :(

If there was a free school bus service we'd use that, but he's special needs, so he needs to be supervised on his way to and from school.

About time all we had a proper school bus service like they do in the US. It'd make a huge difference to traffic congestion.

Penistone Road seems pretty bad to me. I made the mistake of using it to get home from work when I first moved here. I avoid it like the plague at rush hour now and I've found alternative routes to use since I've started to find my way around Sheffield more.

Ecclesall Road, Abbeydale Road, Hangingwater, Rustlings Road.

All very bad in the mornings.

Ecclesall Road, especially in the evening rush hour heading out of town.

PS. Mods/Geoff - feel free to NOT delete this post this time.

The road through Woodseats is a nightmare

Up to a couple of years ago I worked in mansfield and commuted every day. Now I work locally. What a difference! It used to be that if I was 2 minutes late leaving the house, I'd be 10 minutes late for work. The stress of just thinking that I might be late was bad. Now, if the car doesn't start, I can use my bike or catch a bus. It may sound smug, but not doing 2 hours a day behind the wheel is so life changing.

Originally posted by t020
Ecclesall Road, especially in the evening rush hour heading out of town.

PS. Mods/Geoff - feel free to NOT delete this post this time.
Tempted, very tempted.

Originally posted by Classic Rock
So call into my pub for a drink and wait for the traffic to subside!:D

Yep, always good to have plenty of alcohol inside you. It hurts less when you crash. Maybe you could set up a roadside stall so we can get drive thru beer? (ducks flames)

Which pub is yours anyway?

City Road after 4 pm is nearly always murder. The jams can start from the traffic lights where the road which Castle college is based (the name escapes me) ajoins City Road and its a long snarl up towards Manor Top (where Netto is)........

Originally posted by Jess
It may sound smug, but not doing 2 hours a day behind the wheel is so life changing.

I had a similar experience at my last job in Leeds. Except it was four hours :cry:

Hanover Way
Abbeydale road
Chesterfield Road
Ecclesall Road


Hanover Way or Abbeydale road can add 30-40 minutes onto my journey time.

One thing that bugs me...................

Loads of motorists seem to assume that only the place they live has traffic jams, crazy one way systems etc........

Reality is that any decent size urban place (even Doncaster) has traffic problems...........

Broad lane and Tenter street seem to becoming bad lately.

Originally posted by Abdul
I had a similar experience at my last job in Leeds. Except it was four hours :cry:

I drive from Leeds to Sheffield every night at 10pm and back to Leeds at around 4am every night. No traffic at all, takes me about 40 minutes. Can't stand day driving but my vote goes to Ecce Road when i've been there in the day, or any part of the ringroad from Bramall Lane.

-PK-

well from the north of the city - Shirecliffe Road from the Roundabout at Tesco's to Rutland Road between 8.30am and 9am is a total nightmare - what causes the holdups?

And coming home at night Burngreave Road at Abbeyfield Park / Barnsley Road is a real mare - for the same reason....why?

I blame the buses, every queue of traffic always has a slow moving, fume belching dinosaur at the front.

I tend to find the area from high green/grenoside (not sure where, I join the queue at wadsley bridge) down to just past herries road junction opposite wednesday ground is.

I also find that morning traffic is much worse than evening traffic for some reason

Edited to add, can we not turn this into another bus discussion - they're pretty much a neccesary evil.

Originally posted by Mo
The road through Woodseats is a nightmare

Yeh i hate Chesterfield Road, i try and avoid it at all times. Traffic jams all day, not just rush hour! The recent work hasn't done much to help the problem.

Originally posted by Mo
The road through Woodseats is a nightmare
Chesterfield Road/London Road/Queens Rd are a nightmare from 0700 till 0900 and from 1600 to 1800.
Worst portion of the route has to be Woodseats which has been narrowed to a meer 1x1 road which sees the entire traffic from NE Derbyshire to Sheffield pass !
azll of this due to the road works finished a few ago which is a nightmare to buses, cars and pedestrains who are left stranded at pedestrian crossings sith lights that WON'T change !

I also find Fulwood road to be very busy. Strangely not everyday somedays it can be empty and the next it can be gridlock. Traffic can be stacked up right from the traffic light at broomhill all the way down to Thornbury hospital.

All roads bad for going into the city in the morning and bad going out in the evening, except of course Saturdays when they are bad both ways all day, so whats new?:)
The School holidays are a wonderful time though for driving in Sheffield, so next two weeks enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Internetowl
well from the north of the city - Shirecliffe Road from the Roundabout at Tesco's to Rutland Road between 8.30am and 9am is a total nightmare - what causes the holdups?



Originally posted by Internetowl
And coming home at night Burngreave Road at Abbeyfield Park / Barnsley Road is a real mare - for the same reason....why?


Both of these are just the volume of rush hour traffic trying to get down a single lane road.

As for the Abbeyfield Park junction, that situation is made worse by traffic coming up Burngreave Road, but taking that side road (I think it's Minna Road) on the left towards Rutland Road. Those cars are then held up at the lights that cross Pitsmoor Road as those traffic lights do favour Pitsmoor Road by a great margin. This can cause a long tailback stretching back down Burngreave Road.


Originally posted by Internetowl
I blame the buses, every queue of traffic always has a slow moving, fume belching dinosaur at the front.

I would have disagreed with you before, but after monitoring the very slow speed of traffic going up those great big hills in North Sheffield, I conclude you are 75% correct (the other 25% is caused by idiots who are still half-asleep at the wheel and driving at 15mph in a 30mph zone)

Those of you travel via Rutland Road may wish to know that there are a set of temporary traffic lights at the bottom due to roadworks going on. Allow extra time for your journey...

Rustlings road gets my vote, terrible.

I'd have to agree with the comments about Hanover Way, and in general any other road that feeds onto the Brook Hill round-about.

Can we start a worst round-about in Sheffiled thread, Brook Hill would deffo win that one for me.

In a morning:
- Hanover Way (heading upto Brook Hill Roundabout)

In an evening:
- Netherthorpe Road (heading upto Brook Hill Roundabout)
- Hanover Way (heading downto Moore Street roundabout)

The problem with Brook Hill (from my personal viewpoint) is the pedestrian crossings just off the roundabout. Whenever they are used it cause traffic to queue onto the roundabout and therefore stop every other junction from being able to move. Not sure what a solution would be short of moving them further up the road or puttin gin under-passes which never worked anywhere else.

As for Moore Street roundabout. This has got considerable worse since the car hating council decided to make Moore Street a single-carriageway. This has resulted in the same amount of traffic trying to get onto it from the roundabout (as all the other roads are still dual-carriageway) and therefore causing a bottle-neck and queueing over the roundabout.

Originally posted by keithmdw

The problem with Brook Hill (from my personal viewpoint) is the pedestrian crossings just off the roundabout. Whenever they are used it cause traffic to queue onto the roundabout and therefore stop every other junction from being able to move.

Another problem with the lights is that they are automatic, when no one's waiting they'll still turn to red and traffic will jam up. Even at 2:00am they'll still have you waiting on a red light.

Have to agree that Brook Hill is the worst - it makes my heart sink when I come off Penistone Road and can see the traffic queuing back down netherthorpe road.

Often Im in solid traffic all the way from netherthorpe road, down hanover way, bramall lane and onto chesterfield road - nice to see Sheffield City Council has got a grip on things eh !!

If we all complain then maybe the council will put in some more bus lanes / speed bumps / traffic lights etc ;-)

I find the traffic in Sheffield VERY strange.

Recently, Ive had to drive between Fulwood road and London road at about 8am on weekdays. Usually there is a queue right back along Rustlings Road to get onto Eccy Road, so one day I decided to get onto Hunter's Bar roundabout at another entrance (brocco bank way) to see if it was quicker- but the traffic was so bad on fulwood road that I had to abort that idea and go back the Rustlings Road way- where there was NO traffic that day! Do lots of people round there only work part-time? Or do they vary their routes all the time?

Originally posted by playman
Sorry to hear about all your sob stories about traffic jams, do as i do and cycle, there is not much danger involved cos all the motors are doing less than 5mph and i love ecclesall road cos that is one of the safest.
In case of any queries...... no i do not cycle on paths..yes i do have lights....yes i do wear a helmet...and yes i show every consideration to other road users whose council tax pays for us all to use the roads. It is just that i do not have to pay any excise duty to use the roads cos i do not have a combustion engine just pedal power.

but surely if you cycle you wait your turn behind the queing cars as is the Highway Code. You wouldn't be one of those cyclist who decide to wind you way through the cars are you?:suspect:

Originally posted by Steee
I find the traffic in Sheffield VERY strange.

Recently, Ive had to drive between Fulwood road and London road at about 8am on weekdays. Usually there is a queue right back along Rustlings Road to get onto Eccy Road, so one day I decided to get onto Hunter's Bar roundabout at another entrance (brocco bank way) to see if it was quicker- but the traffic was so bad on fulwood road that I had to abort that idea and go back the Rustlings Road way- where there was NO traffic that day! Do lots of people round there only work part-time? Or do they vary their routes all the time?

I agree, I used to work at Meadowhall and used to drive down the road going past the big post sorting office. I started work at 6:15 and went down the road at the same time each day. Some days it would be bumper to bumper but others I could drive down it at 40. I dunno - it's wierd

Gleadless Valley Rd at about 8.50am for 45 minutes. I know a nice little rat-run though, but it still can be painfully small.