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Do you really need to get to London 20 mins quicker than you can now, even at £500 return a price quoted on the radio this morning as being the sum for a train leaving Leeds at 9am.

 

It's not about speed. It's about capacity.

 

If you ever get the inclination to leave the confines of South Yorkshire you'll find that the traffic infrastructure throughout the Midlands is creaking.

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Still stick with my original thought - Meadowhall stop on the main HS2 makes much more sense. Road / tram / train access already there, plenty of brownfield space and it serves the whole of South Yorkshire.

 

Now we get just more capacity going through a town centre station already struggling for infrastructure around it.

 

Mad.

 

Putting it in meadowhall defeats the whole idea of the project. Whats the point of shaving 20mins of the length of a journey only to then have to wait in Meadowhall for a tram with your suitcases and then a 20min tram journey into sheffield.

 

People will just end up getting the normal train.

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Putting it in meadowhall defeats the whole idea of the project. Whats the point of shaving 20mins of the length of a journey only to then have to wait in Meadowhall for a tram with your suitcases and then a 20min tram journey into sheffield.

 

People will just end up getting the normal train.

 

It's about capacity we are told - not just speed.

 

So we have it in Sheffield city centre to serve who? Those who live in S10, 11 and 17??

 

Manchester / Leeds airports are no where near their town centres yet people commute to London by plane (who can afford to).

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Putting it in meadowhall defeats the whole idea of the project. Whats the point of shaving 20mins of the length of a journey only to then have to wait in Meadowhall for a tram with your suitcases and then a 20min tram journey into sheffield.

 

People will just end up getting the normal train.

 

HS2 will likely take longer than the normal train, and you have the issue of having to change trains and the wait on the platform this entails.:loopy:

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It's about capacity we are told - not just speed.

 

So we have it in Sheffield city centre to serve who? Those who live in S10, 11 and 17??

 

Manchester / Leeds airports are no where near their town centres yet people commute to London by plane (who can afford to).

 

Tinsley have more need to have immediate access to HS2 than the city centre because......?

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Tinsley have more need to have immediate access to HS2 than the city centre because......?

 

My God - did you read my post?

 

South Yorkshire - not just Tinsley - would be served by HS2 at Meadowhall.

 

Who, apart from business men who live IN Sheffield, will use HS2 from Sheffield station? Will they travel in from Rotherham, Barnsley and surrounding areas?

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Putting it in meadowhall defeats the whole idea of the project. Whats the point of shaving 20mins of the length of a journey only to then have to wait in Meadowhall for a tram with your suitcases and then a 20min tram journey into sheffield.

 

People will just end up getting the normal train.

So Rotherham as well as Barnsley should not get the full benefit that a station at Meadowhall would provide for all of South Yorkshire.

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It's not about speed. It's about capacity.

 

If you ever get the inclination to leave the confines of South Yorkshire you'll find that the traffic infrastructure throughout the Midlands is creaking.

 

Traffic infrastructure in alot of places is terrible, actually we don't have it that bad.

We are (and always will) missing a proper outer ring-road round the city, that would solve quite a number of transport issues but as the peak district is on our doorstep it's never going to happen.

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We are (and always will) missing a proper outer ring-road round the city, that would solve quite a number of transport issues but as the peak district is on our doorstep it's never going to happen.

 

What are you on about?

Most of the Western side of the Outer ring road didn't get built because it would have caused too many houses to be demolished in Crookes Ranmoor and walkley at a time when there was a ressession.

Nothing to do with the peak district and many of the alignments are still there today.

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So Rotherham as well as Barnsley should not get the full benefit that a station at Meadowhall would provide for all of South Yorkshire.

 

I dont care about Rotherham and Barnsley. I live in Sheffield.

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and for balance, i live in Sheffield, and do care about Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster, etc.

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