NewBiz

Sorted now, cheers

Hi the recent storm has ripped the felt off one side of my 20ft long field shelter.  I'm looking for someone (or 2 people) to refelt it with heavy duty felt. I'll arrange for all materials inc ladders to be on site.

Please let me know if you're interested. I'm in Loxley S6

I have a small garden shed that needs dismantling. I also have a field gatepost 4'' x 4'' so not massive, that needs digging out and replacing, along with removing and replacing the hinges etc and rehanging the gate. I also have a soil stack that needs straightening up, and securing (I have the ladders to reach this)

I will supply all materials, and act as labourer/lend a hand. You will need to bring any tools you need.

If you're interested in any or all of these jobs, please message me. I am in Loxley S6

14 hours ago, Mattw94 said:

Hi NewBiz, is the manure fresh or well rotted?

There's both available

All the topsoil is now spoken for. 

1 hour ago, peteh1 said:

Would be happy to take a couple of bags of manure off your hands, thanks.

Oh that's very good of you.! If you pm me your number I'll give you a call and arrange a time to collect. Cheers

Hi I have about a ton and a half of topsoil and lots of horse manure. Free to anyone who wants some or all of it. Pm me to arrange collection. I'm in S6 Loxley

I have loads of horse manure, and about a ton and a half of topsoil free to anyone who wants some or all of it. I'm in S6 Loxley

48 minutes ago, feargal said:

Regarding affordable housing - does anyone know what that equates to in Sheffield, ie how much to rent/buy?  I'm too lazy to google 😉  

No idea. I'd google it for you but i can't be arsed either!

I'm delighted. Well done SCC Planning dept and Committee!!

It is indeed an exemplar if money wasting ineptitude is what you're after

On 01/09/2020 at 10:03, Bigal1 said:

yes but you have to admit that this one is prize winning -  add in a cycle lane when there is little traffic but still manage to increase pollution from the cars now stuck in jams as a result and then get rid of the cycle lane when car trafic returns towards normal

8 hours ago, Planner1 said:

What dichotomy?

 

One is discussing a temporary scheme, the other is discussing the general thrust of transport policy nationally and locally.

That's  interesting, why you were discussing 'the general thrust of transport policy nationally and locally' on a thread solely about a cycle lanes at Shalesmoor?  What is evident is that you and SCC will call black white in an attempt to save face. What's sad is that not only does it not work, but it stifles any chance of an open culture where people genuinely learn from their mistakes. So there's no accountability, so the money keeps getting wasted, and the taxpayer keeps ponying up, and nothing changes.

4 hours ago, Planner1 said:

Yes, that’s what I said.

No one has said they didn’t think that traffic would get back to that level.
 

Remember, this facility appears to have always been thought of by the council as being temporary. They clearly worked out that they could manage any resultant queuing so that it didn’t spread all around the city centre, while the traffic levels were reduced. Their modelling will have given them a traffic flow level  at which the queues become unmanageable. Hence having a traffic level which triggers removal.

That's interesting Planner1, but is completely at odds with what you stated in your post of 7th July cut and pasted below. Perhaps you could explain the dichotomy  between your statement above, and the one below please

4 hours ago, Planner1 said:

Traffic levels reaching 80% of pre-Covid figures.

So am I understanding you correctly? You appear to be saying that before installing the lanes, SCC had decided that if at any point the traffic returned to 80%or above of pre-covid levels then the cycle lanes would be removed.

Could you therefore please provide the research/scientific/advisory sources they were working from that led them to think there was any possibility traffic wouldn't return to at least 80% of pre-covid levels at some stage, particularly given the fairly predictable reluctance of people to use public transport during a pandemic. Thanks

10 hours ago, darylslinn said:

Do the funds for the  the removal of the scheme and putting the road back to it's pre-cycle lane condition come from central government or the council's own budget ?

 

Another very good question. Where's Planner1 when you need him?

14 minutes ago, RollingJ said:

@NewBizYou're 'avin a larf, aren't you - there was NO forward planning or measurement scheduled, it was a hasty, ill-conceived idea from the off, and even Planner1 won't be able to wriggle away from that - although it isn't really up to him to do so as he wasn't involved in it.

Surely any organisation fit to be in charge of public funds has a clear set of criteria by which they measure the merits or otherwise of any proposed schemes? 

What I'd like to know, and hopefully Planner1 will be able to help here, is what metrics SCC have been measuring during the trial (ie number of cyclists using the lane, reduction in vehicular transport as a result of greater cycle use, impact on traffic flow, journey times etc) and what criteria would have to be met for it to be declared a success.

Specifically what outcomes, agreed before the trial would need to be seen for SCC  to make the cycle lane permanent.

The explanation for removing it is laughable. However the appalling waste of taxpayer's ie our money is far from funny, it's a disgrace

11 hours ago, Baron99 said:

Maybe it's all a cunning plan by central government? 

 

The next time SCC start pleading poverty & run to the Govt for extra cash for something, central Govt might say, think back to tne summer of 2020? 

 

We gave you X millions but you appear to have wasted it all by playing cycle path hoaky-koaky, putting one in, taking one out while at the same time, managing the impossible by alienating tens of thousands of your citizens by slowing down traffic on a a major arterial road, (including holding up some of the emergency services), where you spent millions previously to improve traffic flow & which was only completed the previous year after many months of disruption. 

 

Well done SCC & no you can't have any more money!  We've heard murmurings about allotments to be placed on the Parkway?

My bold, but that sums it up nicely. You couldn't make it up

7 minutes ago, Planner1 said:

The government money has been given for exactly the kind of scheme that has been tried in Sheffield. You can hardly blame SCC for taking money when it's offered. It's given them the opportunity to try something fairly radical that they may not have been able to fund from existing sources.

 

You may think it a white elephant or a waste of money, but others see it very differently.  

I don't blame SCC for taking the money, obviously, but given almost certainly the'scheme' is going to be removed then it's a waste of money. If SCC are incapable of understanding that as a basic concept then we're on a hiding to nothing. I'm not going to waste any more time or effort trying to get this very basic idea across. All very depressing.

What makes me want to weep is that because it's central government money it's treated as though it doesn't matter. It's this arrogant stance that  I find so disgraceful. Each and everyone of us is paying for it, end of chat.  If a white elephant/load of nonsense cost £5 it's £5 too much., and it's £5 that can't be spent on something useful.

If only SCC could take this on board Sheffield might ultimately be a much better place.

28 minutes ago, onewheeldave said:

I've used that cycle path a lot- most of the time the traffic hasn't been that bad, certainly not a chaotic mess.

That's because :

a) It's the summer holidays when traffic is hugely reduced

b) the majority of people are still working from home (I've just got back from my 1st trip to town since March, and the place is virtually deserted. I'd guess around 10% of the people you'd normally expect shopping, many shops shut, and few offices occupied)

All that said, my nephew took 45 mins to get through the area the other day at about 11am, and having been held up many times, has now started trying to avoid it (that's easier said than done when you work, and many of your meetings are in and around about a 5 mile radius of the city centre)

Surely it would only have taken a moments thought to realise that halving the capacity of an already heavily congested  ring road, to which so much traffic has been channelled would create a chaotic mess? 

And just because it's central government money doesn't make it acceptable to waste it.

Finally just to say I know of several anecdotal cases (me included) of people taking longer routes, burning more fossil fuel, just to avoid the mess round Shalesmoor, which isn't going to help the recently declared SCC climate change emergency.

4 minutes ago, alchemist said:

So, having asked this question many times with no answer I suppose its pointless asking again.  But here goes. 

 

How many more cyclists are using this route now its "safe"?  Hundreds, tens, a couple?  Or has it actually gone down??

I saw literally one 7 days ago when I used the road. Exactly the same as the number of bearded vultures I've seen this summer. I had plenty of time to try to spot them as well, being as I was stuck in standing traffic  on Shalesmoor for quite some time, and this in mid morning, during the school holidays, with half the world working from home. What it would be like in a normal rush hour I can't imagine (it's my route to work normally, and is a snarled up horrible stretch of road that crawls at a snails pace in rush hour when it's 2 lane).