AndrewC

The great Sheffield Forum oxymoron; 'I never go to town anymore but it was dreadful when I popped in last week'.

It isn't in the slightest bit unusual for the admin of an X/twitter handle to not engage much - if at all - with questioning etc. That's the work of a statement from TSY, and/or articles from the local media. The tweet you quoted was there to simply inform users of the disruption. I'm not saying I disagree with your general sentiment, that having one of these buses stolen would be a major concern regarding how well they are secured at night, but you're being silly in expecting the answers and explanations to be coming from that particular source. You might as well get as upset about the infoboard screens at bus stops not giving you the full story.

I mean, that's a twitter feed for travel updates. It's literally there to inform people the service will be reduced, I'd never expect chapter and verse from it about why the bus is missing.

Yes - about a decade or so ago an idea dubbed the 'billiardrome' was put forward for I think actually the O2 Academy/Roxy Disco site. It would have been around 2-3k seats. Potentially still linked in to the Crucible either physically or in spirit, in the sense that earlier round matches could still be played in the Crucible with the bigger arena hosting other matches and the latter stages of the tournament.

In fairness to him, Barry Hearn has on more than one occasion made it clear that he's perfectly happy to keep Sheffield as the home of the championships if they make the effort to address those kinds of issues (see the old proposals for a new arena on the other side of Arundel Gate etc), but he's a pragmatic man, and if Sheffield can't keep up with what a venue elsewhere could potentially offer in terms of money, facilities, and profile, then it will move eventually. Expect another decent snooker tournament to become resident here though, potentially.

Let's assume the EVs are more environmentally friendly. That would mean it's still an improvement having 4 EVs out there 99% of the time than 4 diesels out there 99% of the time. Using 1 diesel tow-truck once, on the odd occasion the EV needs assistance doesn't offset the overall gain, does it?

Here's the problem; mentioning population increase & immigration as a factor, amongst others, and giving them their fair weighting as factors in the grand scheme of things is fine. However; persistently focussing on those issues, claiming they have more importance than they do, and overlooking & downplaying other, more influential factors is when it starts to look suspicious. Too many people on this thread can be easily accused of the latter. It needs addressing.

Well, that's certainly what left us vulnerable by half-time. It should have been done and dusted, that is indeed the fault of the players.

As a Norwich man, had I been on this forum last night I would have reassured all Wednesday fans even at 2-0 up that a dodgy, Wagner-inspired screw-up was easily possible.

I'm sure it is the last thing you would want to do - it's also the last thing I would want to do too, but this is just your opinion/experience. The majority still drive. I'm struggling to find the exact source, but these figures are from another forum I use where a similar topic has been discussed: To put into context with other airports (using 2022 figures): Gatwick 28.8M PAX 44.1% use public transport Heathrow 45.6M PAX 33.9% use public transport Luton 12M PAX 35.3% use public transport Stansted 22M PAX 45.4% use public transport Birmingham 8.3M PAX 18.0% use public transport East Midlands 3M PAX 8.8% use public transport Manchester 21.2M PAX 15.5% use public transport The London airports come close, but still under half of passengers come by public transport. It's a huge, busy airport, and it accommodates huge numbers of arrivals on public transport. That still doesn't mean more people don't arrive by car. They also built a huge brand-new dedicated junction off the M25 to serve Terminal 5, and paved over half of west London for car parks.

'No bearing'? It hasn't had 'no' bearing on it. The important bit of context here is that it has little bearing on it, compared to many other issues and policy failures. The important thing to take away from this is that focussing too strongly on that issue in isolation as so many people on this thread are, means focussing too little on the real issues at hand - failed house building policies, budget limitations of healthcare authorities dealing with addiction, cost of living crisis, etc... A good test for this would be to stop all immigration (whilst deliberately resolving none of the other issues listed above), give it 10 years and see if the homelessness situation is any better. I guarantee you that if we still haven't been building houses, still underfund drug-addiction agencies, and still have extortionately high rents & utility bills, you can expect the homelessness situation to have remained largely the same. Only, we'll have now crashed the economy because of not adding to the workforce in a decade.

Greens & Lib Dems have had plenty of success in this city at various levels over the years. Rarely based on the issue of bus gates in town, mind.

Yes, it would say, 'it wasn't as polarising as some people on a local internet forum made it out to be'.

There isn't, you're not wrong, but again, you're acting like we've reached that limit already when the reality is we haven't really, it just seems that way because the processes, policies and spending from our politicians make it seem that way. We could have an economy and land-use efficiencies that could easily house 80 million people on our islands. Funnily enough, that's roughly what the ONS predicts the population to be around 2050.

I know that's what you meant. I was using a dash of tongue-in-cheek sarcasm to point out the real issues.