Hook

9 minutes ago, Bigal1 said:

I am not sure that they will be any better.

What do you want then? You've said you want a company which runs trams for the benefit of the community and not for their own business. SYPTE exists for the sole purpose of providing transport across South Yorkshire, is not for profit and will run it for the benefit of the community

11 hours ago, Bigal1 said:

What we need is a company that runs trams for the benefit of the community and not for its own benefit

You'll have your wish soon, the plan is for SYPTE to take the running of Supertram in house from 2024.

On 22/07/2021 at 21:39, hackey lad said:

Does anyone know why tram was off for four days , Birley lane to Halfway 

The staff who would have repaired the OHLE were all self isolating and so there was nobody to repair the damage. 
 

The hot weather caused the overhead to sag and the pantograph of 206 got caught in it, ripped off and damaged the overhead in the process. 
 

Quite how they managed to check the rest of the network was safe when the staff were self-isolating, or why it was allowed to get into that state in the first would be perfect valid questions to ask. 

7 hours ago, Annie Bynnol said:

3 slight accidents according to Crashmap.

None involving Supertram  according to RAIB.

 

Because a rail vehicle was involved and an injury to a person there will be a full RAIB inquiry.

There won’t be a full RAIB inquiry, they’ll do what they did with the previous two crashes, a brief review and possibly a safety digest. 
 

The second tram train crash at Staniforth road didn’t even warrant an on site visit from the RAIB or interviews with the driver. In the first they interviewed the driver, but concluded no full investigation was needed. 

Who gives a ****?

14 minutes ago, WarPig said:

They will still be good for buying TV's online with 5 year guarantees.

 

The people that did go into town purposely to visit the store will perhaps have also nipped to other shops whilst they were there, but that footfall will now perhaps be gone which will have a negative effect on all those other shops.

Definitely this. 
 

We generally only went into Sheffield when we needed to go to JL and then went to other shops while we were there. Now we have no reason to go to Sheffield at all, and will likely end up going to Meadowhall or Leeds. 

3 hours ago, busdriver1 said:

Hasn't it already lapsed. I had to visit Sheffield yesterday and it was just like a normal Saturday. 

I know you’re just being facetious, but it’s wrong for Stagecoach to hide behind legislation that simply won’t apply. By Easter Weekend people will be able to meet outside under the rule of six, and up to two households. There’ll be no restrictions on travelling and yet Supertram  feel it’s appropriate to cancel all services and not offer any form of replacement services or even accept that it might be a mild inconvenience for some people. 
 

Mind as this is the same company which hasn’t taken seriously the risks provided by COVID and still fails to clean the toilets in their castle house offices more than once a week, continues to clean the trams (internally) with cold dirty water and treat the staff with disdain I’m not surprised. 

1 hour ago, Andy C said:

We are currently in the middle of a national lockdown for the Coronavirus pandemic where you should not be travelling unless the journey is essential. All public transport is currently funded to operate by the government and in South Yorkshire the bus and tram  funding goes through SYPTE who specifes what level of service on the Covid timetables operates and gets paid for. They will be announcing what services will operate over Easter weekend soon.

Except that’s not true for Easter Weekend though is it!

After 28th March the stay at home law lapses and no longer applies!

5 hours ago, ECCOnoob said:

Its rediculous

It’s what?

If it doesn’t bother you and you aren’t interested then why bother replying?

16 minutes ago, Andy C said:

Simple fact is that NO public transport is financially viable at the moment with social distancing measures, if the government did not provide support funding there would be no service whatsoever, be that bus, tram or train, and all operators would have gone bankrupt and ceased trading. The cost of operating the service is more than the fares that can be collected from the number of passengers on board even if everyone paid full fare.

 

All the operators are struggling to exist, managing to providing a basic skeleton service thanks to government support towards  those operating costs and having the majority of staff on Furlough.

 

Suspect there will be a network review post Covid, some routes (like Stocksbridge) were struggling before lockdown and there may well be changes in peoples behaviour (how we shop, socialise and work) now that continue and change demand for travel.

So is the system being fully funded by government (in which case the operators should surely be passing the fares collected back on to the government) or is it being supported by the government?

Transport isn’t the only area of the economy which is struggling, but the private firms involved seem to think they’re entitled to special treatment. As you indicated they were struggling prior to this pandemic. 
 

Bring them back into public ownership, at least then some of the revenue which is being subsided will be passed back to the taxpayer rather than shareholders pockets. 

19 minutes ago, Andy C said:

Everything that exists at the moment is government funded, a new batch of funding comes in to play from June which is increasing most services in terms of both operating hours and frequency, there is a set amount of money though, which limits the provision.

So will it be free to travel? Will fares be going back to the government?

The funds should be used to *support* services, not fund them entirely. Although judging on how Stagecoach have treated their staff over the last few months I wouldn’t be at all sad if they disappeared. 

17 minutes ago, Groose said:

Is the Tramlink removal permenant?

Getting on a bus will be interesting, since there are limits on how many can get on a bus.

My understanding is that they’d like this to be permanent. I believe they’re looking at making the bloke who stands at Middlewood redundant, or forcing him to move to a lower paid job on a permanent basis. 
 

There’s a lot more to come. 

7 minutes ago, Andy C said:

The 57 (operated by First evenings and Sundays) hasn't been running at all on the current Covid-19 emergency timetable. Currently the SL1 runs once every 2 hours and SL1a runs once every 2 hours - hourly combined - both Middlewood-Stocksbridge.

 

From 1st June, yes Supertramlink is history, but the current 57/SL1/SL1a is replaced by the new 57/57a which combined runs half hourly - so a doubling of service. Hillsborough offers more trams than Middlewood for onward travel to Sheffield Centre and of course those just requiring the shops in Hillsborough won't need to change onto a tram.

 

The First bus 57 will also be reinstated (except on Sundays) running to a Saturday timetable.

 

All public transport through Covid-19 restrictions continue to only exist thanks to government funding.

Except now it surely increases the number of passengers changing in Hillsborough a stop which is already busy and therefore making social distancing EVEN harder!

This is clearly a long term cost saving exercise (evidenced by the fact that there will no longer be through ticketing!) introduced under the guise of covid-19. 
 

I’m lucky in that I work for a company where we all regularly WFH and the system is built for 100% to do that. So we’ve not had a problem. 
 

However I’ve heard so many horror stories from other companies both in and outside my sector that I’m pretty lucky. 
 

The council certainly aren’t alone here.

Contrary to what Annie has said I think the least effective method of communication with an MP is via letter, although I guess each office and MP works differently. 
 

I would always recommend contacting your MP via https://www.writetothem.com as this process is transparent and helps keep them accountable! 

7 hours ago, Annie Bynnol said:

Anywhere there are crowds of people you will see more and more street furniture whose purpose is to prevent terrorist attackers from driving into large groups.

At some locations they temporarily use concrete blocks.

 

This is happening all over the UK and most of Europe.

 

There always has been street furniture designed to prevent selfish parking but these are usually much more flimsy

 

This has already been covered when the bollards were placed around the station.

These are nothing to do with terrorism and all about poor parking. It’s a new SCC ‘initiative’ and they’re on Sheaf Street. 

21 hours ago, iLackBrainCells said:

The NPAS helicopters won't appear on FlightRadar anymore as the criminals were using it to see if it was heading their way. 

 

There has been a survey plane in this area over the last few weeks, flying out of East Midlands that has been on flights of four or more hours. 

 

(I'm an aviation geek)

They’re on OpenADSB tho 🦾

9 hours ago, lottiecass said:

But is sited in a place like malin bridge ? no doubt it will get permission but the traffic jam is bound to get worse.

The problem isn’t a Lidl, or anything else. The problem is the lack of development in infrastructure, the appalling investment in public transport and the increasing reliance on the car. 

42 minutes ago, Centrepin said:

Lidl RDC is outrageous. To start with the  booking in procedures are a joke, hurry up and wait. If you speak English you need an interpreter to speak to staff if you can find them, and when they do turn up, they are surly and uncooperative. So under staffed because of  minimum pay and awful working conditions. Hundreds of empty bays, no staff. Drivers have to unload their own lorries with equipment they are not trained to use, because they can't keep staff, hours and hours to wait for paperwork. Containers kept for days and days to be unloaded. If they can't run a warehouse properly which is supposed to supply more than one shop, how can they be reasonably expected to supply a chain of shops on time. Therefore timings out the window, lorries arriving departing unscheduled. Queuing is inevitable. 

 

Lidl, food and produce is cheap for a reason, it lacks quality. 

 

No doubt it will be built, and people will have to find alternate routes to Hilsborough and Malin bridge yet again. A bus journey from Stannington to Hillsborough could be taking an hour soon.

 

I seriously hope it fails, gets pulled down and turned into a park and ride.

Do you have an axe to grind per chance?

On 16/11/2019 at 20:20, Centrepin said:

Since when? Must be planning a tiny shop. For example,  each Co-op in Stannington, 4 co-op lorries in daylight hours, plus bread lorry deliveries.

 

Lidl can do it in one lorry, I think not.

 

My partner manages one of the biggest Lidl in South Yorks so it can be done and usually is. 
 

Unlike Co-Op everything comes from the RDC, so there’s no separate deliveries for bread, milk etc.

On 15/11/2019 at 08:15, Centrepin said:

Yes, absolutely, several articulated lorries a day delivering and attempting to turn into and out of the entrance. Then you have the extra vehicle traffic in the area already at capacity. Queuing for in and out of the car park will cause longer queues round Mailin bridge and Hillsborough in general. Common sense really, the road isn't wide enough, the area is already at capacity, more houses being built in the green belt, it can only get worse.

The majority of stores will get one delivery a day, occasionally during busy periods 2.

On 08/10/2019 at 01:41, ECCOnoob said:

Thank you - that's helped get to the bottom of it (...no pun intended).  

 

Clearly based upon that little list, the submissions by Jaffa1 are complete nonsense.   It hardly demonstrates that Barnsley is somehow superior in their facility provision.

 

Notwithstanding the fact that Barnsley is small town centre compared to a large city - Sheffield ALSO has toilets in their library, train station, bus station and Market hall.  So, no point scored there.  

 

Yes -  Sheffield may not have a large central Shopping Mall like the Alhambra but we do have four major department stores - three of which are signed up to the council funded LAVS scheme and whose toilets are freely open for public use irrelevant of whether you are a customer or not.  Once again, no point there.

 

Ultimately, both places (as with so many other cities) provide ample provision within a "short walking distance" from where ever someone may be.   

 

Add on all the offices, cinemas, leisure facilities, restaurants, cafes and bars that an average person visting the city may at some point pass through - then there is even more provision.

 

I simply do not accept that a legitimate visitor to the city will not have multiple opportunity to go to a toilet during seveal points in their time here.   Nowhere in this city is their a point in which a loo (either private or public) is not a couple of minutes away. 

 

So a small town like Barnsley with less visitors, and a much smaller footfall has the same number of public toilets as a large city like Sheffield?

Think you defeated your own point there. 

22 hours ago, amnicoll said:

Hook are you saying this is the responsibility of SYPTE and this is the right place to report it?

If SYPTE aren’t responsible, they will know who is. I’d also suggest that if Andy C recommends reporting to the PTE then it probably is the best place! 

6 hours ago, amnicoll said:

I doubt the SYPTE have any responsibility for it

 

it is hard to believe that the contractors could have ever thought they were putting it in the right place

Best just to moan on Sheffield Forum about it then? I mean why bother trying to do anything helpful and report it to get it fixed. 

1 hour ago, taxman said:

Really, where does it say that in their franchise agreement?

It’s still the case now. Just google northern no growth. 

https://www.citymetric.com/transport/so-why-northern-rail-chaos-here-are-11-reasons-3952

6 minutes ago, busdriver1 said:

All I know is that the rail regulator has decreed that they are not complying in the way that every other franchisee is.

It's worth understanding the issue in more  detail than that, because for once I think Stagecoach actually took the right approach to protect employees, shareholders, pensions, passengers and so on... https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/pensions-row-threatens-virgin-and-stagecoach-rail-operations/