Well they finally decided to switch the traffic lights on at the junction of Abbey lane and Chesterfield Road yesterday.

What can i say. Total chaos!!

When will these fools at the local authority think about what they are doing before actually doing it. Even at 7pm last night traffic was crawling through Woodseats, it's not usually that bad so i assume the lights have something to do with it.

This morning heading out of town towards Chesterfield, traffic q'ing from Abbey Lane right back up to and on the roundabout at Meadowhead :rolleyes:

Thankfully I don't have to endure this but i really feel for the people heading into town from Chesterfield direction. The solution? is there one? I suspect people will try and use the road hump lined back roads to avoid sitting in standing or crawling traffic.

Chris

Yeah it's pretty terrible. I've changed my hours so I can travel from Dronfield to Sheffield City Centre in less than an hour, which means I leave the house at before 7.30am, but even then the traffic's awful. Those traffic lights are just another fly in the ointment. :x

Sounds like a nasty journey, fortunately I'm going the opposite way each morning so when you clear Meadowhead roundabout it's a straight run.

Dronfield to Sheffield centre each morning.. ouch!!!

Let's give them the benefit of the doubt shall we. Let them turn the lights on at the bus gate thingy, let them move all the cones and finish the road markings. Give it a couple of weeks to sort itself out, then whinge like buggery because it's stll bound to be a fiasco!!! :)

Rather like the well thought out chicane they put half way up Springfield Road and was gone again after less than a month if I remember. Yet another waste of our money.

No, surely, you've got it wrong.

These lights are there 'to help traffic flow' (that means buses) and as a result of 'after listening to the views of residents and motorists' (that is, a sign was put up on a lamp-post informing of the council's [already made] decisions to affect these changes).

We all know traffic runs much better when the lights aren't working, that applies to practically every junction I know.

The plan is simple:

1 - Hold traffic up - that is, turn a ten minute journey into a 50 minute one so the person with the nerve to want to use his own car, at the behest of one of the country's most unreliable and overpriced bus operators (Mainline, that's you) sits in toxic fumes going nowhere fast;

2 - Irritate and frustrate the motorist. To hope the driver gets so frustrated he changes to public transport. That is, BULLY the motorist; &

3 - To pretend that the council wants to initiate 'green alternatives'. Yes, we're a green council preferring the motorist to sit in traffic jams designed by our highways planning department, lights here, speed bumps there, a chicane for good measure, oh look, it's Buses Only now, expelling poisonous fumes into the air.

And THEY are supposed to listen to US.

Voter apathy, anyone?

To be honest, the one thing they got right was the parkign in Woodseats, which I think is easier now. But why the hell did they have to bugger aroung with the rest of it. I now drop down Greenhill Avenue/Bocking Lane. But how long before that becomes a car park, or they decide to make it one way or some other stupid hairbrain scheme.

I'm convinced that when this scheme first began, one of the Streetforce signs advertising the proposed start and end dates and the aims of the scheme, said that one of the aims was to "reduce traffic speed".
If so, well done, you've succeeded - and top marks for honesty!

I thought there were only two speeds on Sheffield's roads:

Slow and stop.

I have to travel from Dronfield to the city centre every day, due to this ridiculous set up in Woodseats I was having to leave my house at 0745 to get to work for 0900!

However, I have found the answer. I've bought myself a moped and can now do the journey in less than 30mins!! A huge saving in time both on the way there and back - and it's cheaper to run than getting the bus!

You also don't realise just how much enjoment you can get from slowly but constantly overtaking all the buses and cars all the way into town! I do feel for you all... :rolleyes:

Anyone got any idea what Streeforce are trying to do now? They seem to be digging up the new bus priority lane (with the traffic lights that have never worked!) - have they had a re-think and decided it was just too dangerous as it was?
I've lost count of the number of accidents I've seen here since the "new" road layout was installed! :loopy:

I have to travel from Dronfield to the city centre every day, due to this ridiculous set up in Woodseats I was having to leave my house at 0745 to get to work for 0900!

However, I have found the answer. I've bought myself a moped and can now do the journey in less than 30mins!! A huge saving in time both on the way there and back - and it's cheaper to run than getting the bus!

You also don't realise just how much enjoment you can get from slowly but constantly overtaking all the buses and cars all the way into town! I do feel for you all... :rolleyes:

Yey. . . a reply of decent reasoning.

I was gonna sugest the scooter option, but most car drivers hide behind the old - It ain't safe on a bike! rather than admit that they just don't wanna brave the weather.

It's like complaining about something you don't want to change/do owt about!

I say, either get a bike/scotter or accept the fact that in a car, you are always at the peril of traffic and this is unavoidable . .

P.s the buzz of passing very fast, very expensive cars on the way home, knowing that i'll be home before they get to the next set of lights is one of the best feelings on a bike. . !!

I've personaly feared the day the lights would get turned on, and I have only driven ther eonce since. I will make sure I do not have to drive there ever again. I'm at the point where I'm fed up with these pointless and paralysing schemes. I use Warminster and Derbyshire Lanes. I'd post a photo but even with this new forum skin we still can't do that and I wonder why the hell we have a new bulletting board engine if this elementary function still isn't activated. It's like Streetforce, a brick wall.

I'd post a photo but even with this new forum skin we still can't do that and I wonder why the hell we have a new bulletting board engine if this elementary function still isn't activated. It's like Streetforce, a brick wall.

Just post a link to the photo.

Just post a link to the photo.No, I want to post the photo, not a link to it :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

The best thing of living at woodseats is monday mornings, your almost certain to see some bugger rushing for work and clip a parked car, and to see the poor sod running out shouting all sorts of abuse at the speeding car is almost funny, but then i'd be too tired to care :p

God, how i hate those lights! I sat through 3 greens the other day!

Argh!

-x-

Been to Morrisons tonight and when I came back down the hill the bus gate traffic lights on Meadowhead are on and working. I had to stop at a red light but the bus lane was green, very tempting to go through that one!! For anyone going to work tomorrow and driving down Meadowhead please be ready. I've no idea what will happen though but be ready anyway!

I find that when wanting to turn right onto Abbey Lane from Woodseats the lights let about 2 cars through, or one bus and maybe a car if you're lucky - not much good at tea time rush when it queues all the way back - very tempting to go round the back streets at side of the car place

Well, the bus gate really improved my journey into work yesterday... NOT!
I caught the bus by Graves Park and we set off down Meadowhead, reached the 'new' lights... and sat in the bus lane for about 5 minutes at a red light, while all the cars sped past cos their light was green.
:confused: What exactly do Streetforce think they have achieved with this scheme?

Can anyone remember when Sheffield had both Good, cheap buses, AND good roads, funny how they have now made the bus service expensive, and the roads systems are now ridiculous. How can it be fair that they the council try and force people to use a wickedly overpriced and unreliable bus service, by causing gridlock ? ? Especially as First use the old knackered buses that Glasgow have finished with, AND the fares in Glasgow are much cheaper.

I thought the bus lane light was supposed to change to green when a bus approached rather than leave the bus sat there at red? This morning when I drove down m.head at 06.35 I could see both lights were on red, surely the lights for the car lane should be on green unless there is a bus approaching? The bus gate on Western Bank heading for Brook Hill roundabout changes to green and the car lane to red when the bus approaches, I've seen a number of car drivers sitting in the bus gate waiting .... waiting and presumably having to wait for the next bus or reverse out.

This is the most ridiculous road system I've ever seen! :rant:

It seems it somehow also acts as a pedestrian crossing which is why both sets of lights will sometimes be red. However, every time I've gone past them there doesn't seem to be any reason for the lights to be on at all... traffic queue's down there all the time anyway!

It's also stupid for me on my moped, I now have to work out which side is going to be green so I can get on that side for when I reach the lights! :twisted:

6.15pm this evening, and the traffic was backed up past Greenfield Road. I thought this was supposed to ease traffic congestion. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!