Captain_Scarlet

"The NUM building is one of Sheffield’s most prominent buildings" No it isn't lol! Great to hear something is being done of the building though, good luck to the operators

Beauchief Gardens has had a lot, lot less care to it since they removed the lovely wooden sign and replaced by the generic metallic green one. The borders were always trimmed, weeds out in the rockeries but there now are leaves everywhere, un-trimmed bushes and murky water in the brook. Darn shame. Shame about the garden centre too...

If you have L plates you can't drive on "blue" roads; that means road marked M and A(M). You are wrong and policeman was right to caution you. You should restrict yourself to green roads and below. As an example, stretches of the A2 have five lanes both sides, you can drive on that section with L plates. It's not the lane count that matters, at all, I don't know what highway code you've been reading from but your method is flawed, very much so!

I don't recall mistaking West Street for Glossop Road. Been a while HeadingNorth..

I don't use park and rides because I live closer to town that any of the Sheffield park and ride car parks. If I have to go to town, I drive or grab a lift and carpool. I also drive through town to go farther afield. If they built park and rides in city centre, I'd be happy to use them and walk to where I had to go to from the car park. Wait... Rephrase your comment; buses are not better value for money, the government of the time thought buses did. It wasn't truth or fact it was an opinion.

At the junction between Gell Street and Glossop Road there are two signs 'on' Glossop Road with the 1630-1830 bus gate operating hours stated in pre 24 hour clock. There isn't however the traditional bus gate/lane sign you get when you're on a side street about to enter a primary road (like this: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&biw=1280&bih=809&q=gatefield%20road&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl ) As the restrictions begin upon the junction, all leading routes should have a sign, as is the norm with bus lanes should it not?

I take it all the pedestrian crossing in Sheffield that do work are on the Londonners' list for replacement by your favourites, the none-working ones? Or do we have half the country with illegal traffic lights? Ping-pong, no it isn't or it wouldn't endanger drivers and pedestrians by its actions. That's not what you were saying in your last post. By-the-by, it's an obvious statement.

Woodseats has no convenient crossings. They've proved to be inconvenient for pedestrians as well as vehicles since they were installed. Ignore the M8 and Glasgow's pretty quiet. The A61 is a green "trunk" road. If it was "red" it would be a primary road. Abbeydale and Ecclesall roads are primary, Chesterfield and the A61, Bochum Parkway and that are trunks. You push that pencil everyday, I'll be back in Sheffield next weekend. You'll give us that answer by then? It is not, it never has. One can and Council did it when making a mess of London Road. There's an absolute pedestrians crossing outside Saint Barnabas. That argument has never shown to be true. There is the same traffic whether it is funnelled into one road or not. It is fairer and morally right to allow people to choose which road to use and since funnelling all traffic onto one road creates traffic jams (as it does on Queens Road because London Road still has a bus gate outside Lowfields School) your argument is erroneous (erroneous is a long word meaning wrong). That's hardly a point, neither Goverment or the EU get money out their bums. Anyway, I'm sure the OP didn't necessarily mean monetary costs. Poor planning in Sheffield costs time as well as foreign authorities' money (since apparently Council don't do anything themselves these days).

Check their websites....

your comments are fine if you're going to town but life in Sheffield doesn't revolve around being the bad anti-bus person driving into town. Some of us have jobs that require driving through, into or out of Sheffield. Meadowhead and this nonsense of a red light is the A61, a trunk road between Leeds and Derby, not a back alley for the 75 to drive upon. No, I re-engineer it. No, they're put in to prevent people doing something the Council's whim decided they shouldn't do; there is no consideration of safety. The main problem simply is they don't change colour when the button is pressed. Pedestrians end up walking in traffic and about ten minutes later traffic is stopped for nothing. The Council doesn't take advice, it renders it as gospel to its minions.

My Mother is from Totley. Grandmother first lived on Abbeydale Park then Overcroft Rise behind the Fleur. I only spent my holidays there but lived in the village my-self for a few months in 2002 when Myra's closed and passed on to the couple that both went bonkers, literally. I was also there in 1999 when the Polytechnic tower was dynamited, we were all in the field behind the uni campus, on the way to the Totley Brook.

You've pretty much summed it up Rupert_Baehr. This is another nonsensical, token and offensive non-event.

I've heard worst ideas

I wouldn't think Sheffield is arty farty because of students, I think Sheffield is arty farty because Council's installed rocket bins, flower pot fountains and other street furniture that should be locked up at the Guggenheim.

I don't understand why Government should pay for all that

Shame they closed. I remember these three chains opening quite a few stores on the continent at the end of the eighties, early nineties but I think the Sheffield of the time didn't have the mentality to welcome such stores. I'm far from saying Sheffield was backward but there's a time and a place and I think Sheffield and the UK are much more welcoming to these ideas at this time; some even patron Subway and Starbucks! What a sad person you are.

Since they no longer represent what they were elected as you're quite right!

I'm a bit younger but I remember Totley of the eighties; Myra's post-office opposite the Fleur. The bus turning in front of the Cross (which to be fair, it still ought to do if they hadn't built that turn around in the middle of nowhere). The polytechnic, Totley Pick Your Own; with the signs vandalised each year with the addition of 'Nose'. The butcher at the top of Main Avenue, the coloured pop at the Cricket and the cobbled path that goes there from Hillfoot. The scouts using the rifle range with my uncle being part of them in the eighties. I remember the end-of-year show at All Saints they did at the church hall. Good times, I think myself fortunate that things haven't changed too much since then but the little changes, they're strange.

use the router's Ethernet connection and get access to the router that way, then once logged on to the router, change the wifi password.

I'm sure if your dog is left at the door the pub will be very friendly.

If I answer the poll literally: no I do not Niche into Nemo.

No I could not. God love Labour, thanks voters.

A while back there was a chap on Look Leeds with a 60 year old telly with Freeview. If you can find a Freeview box with coaxial output and tune your telly to the Freeview box you will have old-skool digital TV. Andy is correct, if you use a video player with the said coax' you'll work around the absence of SCART.

I didn't know what a "train station" is. No trains go to London from Meadowhall railway station. The closest stations with trains direct to London are Sheffield and Doncaster. There is a booth at Meadowhall and ticket machines, I don't believe there are ticket collection machines though.

Durham's market is historical. Sheffield's historical markets were never bombed, they were demolished under order from our Council in 1955. The Fitzallan and Norfolk Halls were fine and they would be fine if they hadn't been taken down. The horrible construct that is the Castle complex was built thanks to the Council's short-sightedness. Another example in a huge list.