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I do not believe you are correct in saying there’s no oversight. There is. There is a council team that operates the contract. It’s just that it is smaller in scale than was envisaged when the contract was put in place.

Erm, there is plenty of parking available in Sheffield city centre, the car parks are never full, even at the busiest times. How many department stores does Meadowhall have? Very classy walkways? Which ones are/were these?

All of the permit parking zones are regularly enforced.

Why don’t you have a look at the transport assessment and see for yourself. The highway plans start at around page 245. It says that the problems at St James are largely due to the internal layout, which is being changed, so they are expecting that will sort it out. Like I said before, the assessment says that the Greenhill Avenue / Greenhill Main Road ( which is the place where collisions are happening) has a “committed” council scheme to fully signalise it, which should be sufficient to handle any traffic arising from the stadium development. Like I said, this is the transport assessment the applicant has submitted. The council will be checking what they have said and may, or may not accept what they are proposing. Interestingly, it says that on match days they will put on a “frequent” ( whatever that is) shuttle bus that runs to / from Dronfield station, Dore station and Sheffield station. That should help some people leave their car at home.

If you have a look at the transport assessment in the application ( which is linked in previous posts) it tells you what they are proposing ( which the council may, or may not accept) The assessment says that the council are already planning to fully signalise the Greenhill Main Rd / Greenhill Avenue junction and this will cope ok. They’re proposing some minor tweaks to Meadowhead roundabout, widening the carriageway on the roundabout opposite the end of Greenhill Ave ( shaving some off the main island and some off the splitter island on Greenhill Main Road) and extending the 3 lane approach from Greenhill Main Road back a bit longer and a few minor geometry tweaks on the other arms. No changes at St James retail park or other junctions.

Can’t say I’ve ever heard of police enforcing no entry restrictions by automatic camera. Decriminalised enforcement of some moving traffic offences is now being rolled out to councils outside London ( after many years of lobbying for it) but the councils have to apply for the powers. I believe SCC are applying and have already identified the sites they will enforce.

Highway projects are often delivered in phases, usually because of the availability of funding, or the timescales within which the funding has to be spent. ( central government often impose very tight timescales for funding pots).

Because, believe it or not, they actually consider enforceability when they put these restrictions in. The police have other fish to fry and won’t be able to dedicate Officer time to enforcing a bus gate. ( And they tell the council this too)

The problem with this is that only the police can enforce it and they are generally busy doing other things, so actual enforcement would be very infrequent. Once drivers realise this, the restriction offers very little deterrence and won’t achieve its aim of keeping general traffic out. Thats why we have decriminalised enforcement by automatic camera. It’s much more efficient at catching and penalising offenders and frees up police and court time.

If I was looking to describe the quality of the shopping on Fargate, I don’t think “up market”would have been my choice. Pretty standard High Street stuff in my opinion. Sheffield simply does not seem to attract high end retail. Have you actually seen the visualisations of what they are doing on Fargate? It should look very good once it’s finished. Nowadays companies looking to open a branch in a new city or looking to relocate, consider the quality of the public realm ( ie the infrastructure, paving, planting, seating etc) in that area. Cheap but smooth doesn’t cut it I’m afraid. They are using a government grant that’s specifically aimed at this kind of project. There’s little point in skimping on quality.

As I recall, all Council controlled parking in the city centre, on and off street was always free on Bank Holidays. Read the information panel on the pay and display machine, it will tell you if that’s still the case. Have a look at the council parking page to see where their nearest car parks are. Carver Lane and Rockingham St look nearest.

Do you actually know what SCC does to attract investment? And exactly what would you want them to do more of?

Exactly where is it and what is it mounted on? I can see a camera on a lighting column opposite the back of the Crucible. Looks more likely to be city centre security to me. That location has never been mentioned for a moving traffic offences camera and as far as I’m aware SCC haven’t installed those yet.

Is doing a quick online search of “Arundel Gate Bus Gate” beyond your capabilities? If you did, you’d find this article.

You can get access at all times, you just might have to go a slightly different way. The only thing the bus gate does is stop through traffic in one direction. Nothing like a bit of hysterical gross exaggeration to spice up the discussion, eh?