Lancs_Lad

On 03/11/2020 at 12:08, tinfoilhat said:

There won't be any money left to build it.

I think it's already been spent (in London)

I've just had the lib dem pamphlet through the door.  I didn't realise that all council decisions since March have been made by 1 person due to the council invoking emergency measures. Amongst other things they are giving 16 million pounds back to central Government in unspent business support schemes that could have gone to local causes like other councils have done, Sheffield Council Tax payers have also bailed out Scarborough Leisure facilities (run by SCT), and £33,000 was wasted on the Shalesmoor bike lane scheme that was implemented and then taken up when it caused chaos. Speechless

11 hours ago, Runningman said:

If I have to attend NGH, I park outside and walk in.

If you want to know where then pm me.

I always park on Herries Rd, if you can't get a spot above the entrance then there's always space on the road opposite the ambulance entrance just above where Sheffield Windows used to be.

Just had a Lib Dem leaflet through my door that states the council are imposing £70 fines for people queuing at their tips with a picture of the Shirecliffe site on the front.

How long have they been doing this and is it all tips?

It was a Police pursuit apparently, stolen car around Fox Hill and then Loxley

10 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Cycle lane markings still visible in places, but the road has been returned for vehicle use in a timely fashion,so that will do for me.

Great, common sense prevails (possibly a term never heard in Sheffield Council chambers).  I was dreading my return to work in the future as I use Shalesmoor daily.

It's for a channel 5 documentary about the Dambusters according to the Star.

ha ha I see Planner 1 hasn't got involved in this yet! Penistone Road cycle track into town is largely ignored by cyclists as they still tend to use the road rather than the cycle track.  And what about the wasted thousands when they introduced the cycle track down near Costco narrowing the road and removing parking for the workers in the area. In the time it's been done I don't think I'm up to double figures yet with the cyclists  I've seen that use it (I'm also a cyclist myself and advocate cycle lanes where possible and more importantly useful).

Inner Ring Road Improvements - Status Update

Amey commenced their final surfacing programme on Monday 9th March, 2020 and this will last for a period of up to 6 weeks.

The surfacing will take place on weekdays between 19:00 and 06:30 and Sundays between 07:00 and 19:00 which reflects the many restrictions that have been put in place during the construction of this project.

The first half of the period will concentrate in the Northern half of the project area and generally between Chatham Street and Savile Street before then continuing within the main Corporation Street section.

Subject to any delays associated with staff resources on site arising from COVID-19, and normal caveats about weather conditions being favourable, the final surfacing should be completed by the end of April, 2020. The scheme will at that point be substantially complete.


I hope this assists in responding to your constituent on this matter
Best regards
Tom

Tom Finnegan-Smith
Head of Strategic Transport, Sustainability and Infrastructure
City Growth
Sheffield City Council

14 hours ago, iLackBrainCells said:

They haven't been seen at Lodge Moor either except very early this morning. W

They did tweet that only the high altitude routes would be gritted so far.

Well I would say Stannington and Lodge Moor are amongst the highest areas of Sheffield.  Stannington is 650 feet above sea level.

And has anyone seen any gritters yet? Certainly no sign of them at Stannington this morning and the Star seem to have posted that the they haven't bothered gritting!

Council seem to be inept at anything to do with transport in this city unless it involves putting in useless cycle paths in places they're not required just to meet targets! (eg the one outside Costco)

Plenty of people on the Stannington Facebook page happy with them. Don't know whre you live but if you're in S6 try joing the Stannington FB page

1 hour ago, bluecanary said:

So true!

 

Can anyone decipher the route after Hillsborough park into the city centre? Do they continue on the current A61 or divert  off somewhere? Sme of the buildings towards the end look vaguely familiar, but I'm really struggling to place them.....

The route has stayed pretty much the same other than where Old Penistone Rd diverts past the Toyota dealer and rejoins at the traffic lights near Hillfoot Bridge and also a couple of places towards Shalesmoor where you can see bits of the old road.  It's basically the buildings that have changed and obviously the dual carriageway

30 minutes ago, Centrepin said:

It's bad enough that Lidl are going ahead, but what's happening to the burial ground on High Rigs. I presume you mean the Quaker burial ground as its known.

There's a post somewhere that a planning application has been submitted for a natural burial ground on High Riggs so not the Quaker burial ground but somewhere nearby.

26 minutes ago, beddoe79 said:

It’s either out on to the parkway towards Handsworth or you can turn right out of the exit and follow the road on to Bernard Road.

 

Hope that helps

Thank you

I may have to start using the Nunnery Square Park and Ride and just wondering if there is an exit onto Derek Dooley Way or do you have to come out onto Parkway in front of the Knowhow building. 

It was a leak from a generator that caused it and the company had engineers out the same day

1 hour ago, Planner1 said:

They are keeping the same number of lanes open on the main routes, which is what you would expect. I don’t see what they are doing has had a major impact. 
 

How do you expect them to actually build a scheme like that? It’s impossible to do it with zero impact, in an extremely short timescale, which appears to be what you are expecting.

 

Large schemes like that in a difficult environment can take a couple of years to deliver and they always look a “mess” while they are in progress, that is just the nature of the work they are doing.

1 They have not kept the same number of lanes open.  As in my original post they have removed one of the filter lanes in either direction towards Saville street that has caused queuing traffic to impact both ways.

Oh and you obviously don't use that route at busy times or you would have encountered the impact it has had.

2 Yes there will be a timescale and an impact but it has currently come to a halt and it is not a short timescale

3 In the great scheme of things this isn't that big a scheme

Additionally it appears to have been very poorly thought out with the "U" turn for buses at the new traffic signals as they have great difficulty managing the turning circle.

There's a plan shown on Sheffield council website somewhere (detailed on a previous thread) but I couldn't really make head or tail of what they're trying to achieve.  What really is frustrating is they have ripped the road up on the filter towards Attercliffe and it looks like they're installing a cycle lane that will reduce the filter to one lane thus causing tailbacks at busy times.  This has also meant they have reduced the filter on the opposite carriageway to one lane that causes tailbacks in the other direction and causes traffic to back up to Parkway every night.  

They are supposed to be trying to reduce pollution but by slowing everything down they are undoubtedly causing more pollution.

Anyone else totally fed up with the lack of progress on these now.  They seem to have gone on for ever and they now seem to have come to a halt.  Add to that the ridiculous decision to cut the filters (both ways) towards Saville St and the stupid u turn traffic light it's total chaos.  The roads themselves are in a right state with very poor lane markings, some new ones but they've left the old ones in place.

New year rant over

Flood warning for Meadowhall and Carrbrook

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/target-area/123FWF629

Do they not remember 2007?

On 03/11/2019 at 23:15, busdriver1 said:

The promotion of Sheffield as a city of sport means that every now and then some of the budget hotel chains have a field day then go back to tick over again.

Very good

On 09/08/2019 at 12:36, Planner1 said:

Instead of moaning on here, you could of course have contacted the Council and asked them what has changed and why

Have you ever tried ringing the council and getting through to the correct department?

I did know you check this forum and hoped you might pick it up,  thanks for the response.  Morning run to work was back to normal this morning  

1 hour ago, Unrecordings said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-49281645

 

words fail me...

What is so galling is that until he actually resigns or waits for the next election nobody not even parliament can do anything about it (or even appear to want to do anything about it). In the meantime the Hallam constituents continue to suffer and be unrepresented

It appears the powers that be have been playing with the traffic signal timings again (or they've brought their children to work since the holidays have started and let them loose!)

Anyway at about 7-15am I travel to work along Penistone Rd into town and although it could be busy it's now stupid at the junction with Albert Terrace Road and Rutland Rd. Traffic used to be halted on Penistone Rd at Albert terrace Rd leaving traffic coming out of Albert Terrace Rd and turning right a free run up to the red light at Rutland Rd before changing to green and allowing traffic to proceed and it all worked pretty well.  What happens now is Rutland Rd changes to red and allows traffic on Penistone Rd to back up to Albert Terrace Rd before the lights there on Penistone Rd change to red and Albert Terrace Rd gets a green.  Traffic from Albert Terrace can't then get across without stopping in the yellow box junction and causes a backlog on Penistone Rd and plenty of frayed tempers.

On my way home at around 4pm I also travel down Parkway and onto Derek Dooley Way where they've been playing with the lights at the Wicker as well causing traffic to back up to Parkway where it used to be generally clear.  

Anyway moan over