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  1. People did not understand why the signals were there and why they were seemingly held there for no reason that they could see.

     

    There is no legal sign that can tell a driver "You are being held here as part of a queue management strategy that will actually smooth your journey, so don't be concerned that you can't see any particular reason why your signals is at red, your journey will overall be smoother for your short wait here"

    Sweet summer child, you believe all that stuff don't you?

     

    ---------- Post added 19-12-2012 at 11:10 ----------

     

    The Council work in similar ways to any large organisation. Projects have a project manager.

     

    You and others label the Woodseats scheme a fiasco, but I would like to understand what makes you think that. The project actually delivered everything it set out to do, so what would make you think that anyone should be disciplined or fired for achieving all the project deliverables

    What most of us have said many, many times is that the goals were wrong, thus the results also were. The re-re-engineering of the junctions and the continuous traffic problems show that the last three projects have failed to deliver.

     

    Many people did not like or understand the bus pre-signals and queue management strategies employed. That does not mean that they failed to do what they were expected to, only that people did not understand their purpose. Perhaps that was the Council's failing, that they possibly didn't explain it as well as they might have.
    You're right, we didn't and don't understand, many of us still disagree with them. Who's right? Whoever wants buses AND normal traffic to not be needlessly held up should be the right person. Fairness, equality and transparency should be pencil pushers' goal.

     

    Woodseats was not just about one set of signals, it delivered many different types of improvements through the area and was part of a much wider corridor based project.
    The 'corridor' is quite narrow, two lanes wide in fact, two lanes less than what the road is just before and after Woodseats. I absolutely love the lights at the juction with Abbey Lane, I adore the one way streets preventing people from avoiding Chesterfield Road and I cannot live without the pedestrian crossings that don't change when I want to cross.

    One point that you need to remember is that the project was started under a Labour administration and the Lib Dems never liked it. It is therefore not surprising that they decided to change some aspects of it when they came to power.
    I can't disagree with that, changing management mid-project is never a bad thing.

  2. What would you call it then.

     

    It was built, nobody used it and it was a financial black hole that had to eventually be bailed out by taxpayers. Its hardly a great success.

     

    Maybe people realised that building it alongside the parkway in a built up area with a tiny runway only allowing hopper aircraft was slightly pointless

     

    Stating that all international flights included a compulsory switchover in Amsterdam was hardly a great selling point.

    The run way was too short. Companies, such as FlyBe who have an extensive national network, didn't exist then. I can easily see FlyBe or BMI Regional have money making routes out of Sheffield. I fly out of Manchester (because LOL at Doncaster) twice a week to Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the South West.

  3. No on-line form. Shame, wanted to whinge about the "28 day" nearly monthly passes. They have to stop this 28 day malarkey...

     

    The other tickets already exist in the form of the Travelmaster and South Yorkshire Day Tripper. Not much new in there but it was a very pretty website.

    Cheapskate one operator tickets will still be available. Trouble is they will be of less real value unless you use the PTE's best friends - stagecoach who are set to gain massively from this sham.
    To be fair, we've all experienced the services run down First have practice since 1998. Stagecoach are far from perfect but they're cheap, frequent and have nicer buses. The 87 is the best thing that's happened to South-West Sheffield public transport since Andrews/Yorkshire Terrier/Stagecoach pulled out of Totley fifteen years ago; placing First in a monopoly down Abbeydale Road.

  4. Hello All,

    Should the eastern fringe of Woodhouse have to bear the burden of over a third of the potential additional houses for the entire city?

     

    Should our green open spaces be built on because developers dont want to use inner city brownfield sites?

     

    Should the Council renege on its policy of protecting this area from development and jepodise the ongoing community based enviromental improvement programme ?

     

    Should agricultural land be built on when more sustainable greenfield sites are available locally?

     

    Please take time to look at what the Council is proposing for the area either on its website-www.sheffield.gov.uk/sdfconsult or paper copies at the library.A drop-in consultation event will take place at Woodhouse Library on Friday 3rd of February from 10- 12.30 and 1.30 - 7.30.

     

    Dont let apathy rule,let your views be known (before 27 th of February) its your land and its your Council.

     

    Thankyou shebba

    Better in Woodhouse than somewhere nice.

  5. My sister is currently travelling to and from Cornwall every other week, and has started flying from Manchester Airport to Newquay Airport quite regularly. She has even found it to be cheaper that the train in some cases.
    Especially since air South West has stopped the service in November following the closure of Plymouth Airport, a scheduled stop on the flight to Dublin (Manchester-Plymouth-Newquay-Dublin).

     

    EDIT: I stand corrected, FlyBe took over the flight with no stops at Plymouth.

    That's 77mph all the way there. Unless you're talking about just crossing the border into Cornwall in which case it's 73.75 mph. I'd like to see anyone try those speeds on the A30.
    Not too much of a problem until you reach the A39 Truro roundabout

  6. They need an access road to open up the redevelopment area and a way of reducing the congestion at J34 to enable redevelopment of the sites to take place without locking the whole place up. Sounds like regeneration to me
    The bit of grass along the railway line, under the viaduct has never been built upon. How can a green area be regenerated?

    What you mean is, a road's being built to bypass the annoying roundabout at junction 34S. Benefits of that when there's a railway line with a train every blue moon and could be used to transport the dissolute population from Rotherham (those with eyes in history books will note the irony in my comment).


  7. At around 5.45 pm tonight , you pulled straight in front of me from the slow and into the fast lane regardless of the fact I had no where to go or that I was in fast flowing traffic so couldn't slow down easily. Then as I changed to the slow lane to get off at handsworth you obviously assumed I was undertaking and so proceeded to try to shove me off the road by changing lanes right next to me . I had to drive on the white border lines . I am a strong character and will not let you intimidate me but one day you may kill someone , you foolish man !!
    If you managed to fit your car in the left lane (slow lane as you call it) it means you should have probably in that lane in the first place.
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