Dan_Ashcroft

The big issue is that batteries are not good enough. Lithium Ion is as good as it can get - humanity needs to invent something better first. Long charges every 200 miles are just nowhere near competitive with petrol. The electricity generation should be fine by 2040 though, as we are currently on target for 100% renewables by 2050. Solar and wind will be all-dominant by then

Petition: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/crossrail-north-now

Crossrail 2 is to transport commuters in from Hertfordshire and Surrey into London, it's not really for people that live in London London itself is generally a 50:50 Tory-Labour split

The South East votes Tory, so the government will prioritise their heartlands and marginal areas over hard red areas.

Sheffield Hallam University: https://www.shu.ac.uk/current-students/sport/sports-facilities/physiotherapy-clinic General public rate is £35 for half an hour. Appointments usually the same week As they are non-profit making, they also don't have any incentive to make you come back unnecessarily. I'd also though add another positive voice for Mark Roe

The trains will be electric ones, with an old diesel motor bolted on. So they will still work when diesel refinement stops in a few years, but the electric lines will need to be in place or they'll end up stranded.

It doesn't remove the need for electrification, as diesel is horrifically polluting and generally being phased out as a fuel by 2040.

Don't worry about fire engines - they just ram their way through in emergencies and leave a long line of wing mirrors in their wake. 90% of Sheffield has parking on pavements - it's just a legacy of mostly being built for the working class in the 1880s Parking across drives crosses a line though. Personally I'd just bump the car out of the way (rocking it to overcome the handbrake, not bumping it with your car). No one does it twice once they've found their car relocated.

The way to make Midland work as a major transport hub are: - Demolish Park Hill and build a massive car park in the hill side - Upgrade the Parkway to 3 Lanes and keep the 70 limit to closer to town - Build a new slip road from the Parkway, through Hyde Park, into the new car park - Build a bridge from the bottom of Chesterfield Road to the new car park

80 minutes a day 400 minutes a week 20800 minutes a year 57 days a year less to spend with your family and friends

Leeds 4 - Sheffield 0 Worst day for the city's economy since the airport closed. Confirmed as a provincial backwater for the next 50 years

Urm - yes It's bypassing South Yorkshire and going straight to Leeds. We have to transfer onto an old chugger at Chesterfield and only 1 in 3 will bother doing that. Sheffield has just been bypassed.

Confirmed. Sheffield loses its HS2 :-(

If the alternative is no HS2 at all, like we are getting now, then yes The whole point of a parkway station is that there's free and plentiful car parking. Drive to Meadowhall and park is much quicker/cheaper for most than drive to Sheffield city centre and not park ---------- Post added 17-07-2017 at 16:06 ---------- The only problem is that the technology is already now out of date. Maglev ultra-high speed and hyperloop are already being rolled-out in more advanced countries. It's the same with Hinkley Point - the technology is going to be obsolete by the time it is complete (100% renewables is estimated for 2050)

The M18 route is cheaper because it's much flatter. And yes SCC have made a major balls up. From getting a parkway station, we're now being by-passed completely Here's a picture of the two routes: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEmJBq_XUAAJhTw.jpg:large Orange is the good route for Sheffield, purple is the one we'll get.

The best solution would be to have carbon-dioxide-breathing mature trees along the pavements. Oh, hang on... ---------- Post added 06-07-2017 at 15:11 ---------- 3 minutes So evidence-led policy-making. Something local governments are particularly adverse to here - why let facts gets in the way of a vendetta.

The scientific advice is to only switch off if you are stopping longer than 3 minutes. Otherwise restarting the engine causes more fumes than the idling.

Protest about all the tree felling down there this week apparently

When it was KFC in the late 90s it was always deserted With their national pricing (c.£4 a meal, now c.£6), they just couldn't compete with £1 chicken burgers and chips from Broomhill Friery and Northern Soul

RIP. Rare and Racy finally closed yesterday. Kicked out to make way for foreign-owned student flats and Starbucks This is definitely the saddest day for South Yorkshire bibliophiles in decades. I think YSF Books in Hunters Bar closing in 2004 was our last major loss. Remember to keep supporting our 3 remaining bookshops - Books On The Park, The Last Chapter and The Porter Bookshop

We've known since Ronan Point in 1968 that these are death traps. They all need to come down - Exeter Drive, Sharrow, Park Hill, Hyde Park, St Pauls - the lot of them.

It already past through parliament in 2011. The draft proposals were published in 2016 and come into effect in 2018. It's independent, so can't be influenced by political parties. The Boundary Commission do this about every decade, so there will be looking at the next set of changes for 3 elections time soon.

Hallam won't exist in the next election. It is one of the 50 constituencies being cut following the last boundary review (Sheffield will only have 5 constituencies in future). Crookes and Ecclesall are going into central, whilst Fulwood and Lodge Moor etc. are moving into Penistone and Stocksbridge

The Hallam campaign will be easy next time. Just sort of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40264004

Dirt shows clearest in the light. People will now quickly see what an unpleasant individual he is. He's got all the rope in the world now to hang himself. Like a mini Trump (with similar world views) #notmyMP