From rags to ... well ermm rags really!!

[chalicefc3 10]

Oh my life, i've wanted to whine about this for such a long time now but i can never find the right place or the people to do it. Yes Yes....... i am on about the state of sheffield's lovely roads.

 

I am as accepting as the next person when it comes down to reasoning with fiscal restrictions - but it has got to a stage where something really needs to be done about it.

 

I have a car as i am sure most of you do too ----- but my car needs more repairs than your average four-wheeler. Why?? Because i live in Sheffield.

 

I travel about to various cities in the country and although i try to credit Sheffield for as much as possible - i dont have anything nice to say about the roads. They are worn, torn, bumpy, holey, and bloody dangerous to boot.

 

I live on Psalter Lane and as you approach from city end just up by Psalter Tavern, there is a raised bit of tarmac you need to negotiate to avoid flying into oncoming traffic --- not the mention the subsequent adverse camber which follows immediately after it. I love the history of old cobbled streets but the one down from Hunter House Road has not been resurfaced for so long, you can see the cobbles underneath and its like going back in time.

 

The bypass up to St Mary's Roundabout is interesting - as you approach it from shoreham st - dont be in the middle lane coming up to Bramall Lane as the car has trouble deciding which lane to choose when you hit the trench that is the middle lane. The approach from Ponds Forge to train station is also a classic example - no indicator to decide whether left or right lane has right of way in choosing the middle lane at Sheaf Square.

 

All i can say is thank goodness they sorted out the rough surface on the parkway city bound - it was getting so dangerous going along there that i started driving into the city from J34 instead just to avoid killing myself by bouncing into rotherham bound traffic

 

 

Now maybe im just being mardy but when we are spending X numbers of millions of pounds repaving the likes of Devonshire St and the bit outside of Winter Gardens - surely they could invest a little in at least fixing the roads to a urban standard - after all do we really live in a 3rd world african village????

 

No vote needed - cos its a poor excuse to validate my annoyance.... however your views appreciated!!!

[DaBouncer 13]

Agreed mate.

 

I'm even thinking about sending the council my bill for having my wheels tracked and the new tyres I needed. All because the roads are such s*** in Sheffield.

[Agent Orange 11]

I agree with your comments about the state of our roads in Sheffield. I too used to get fed up with the tracking etc on my car getting a beating cos of the holes and trenches, but I was relieved to see that it's not only a Sheffield problem. Many other areas in South Yorkshire and further afield have also got road surfaces that resemble an off road track. Maybe the highway's agency should dig in their pockets some more and award councils with more funds to correct roads that have been left to ruin.

 

As for Division Street, I'd rather take my chances and walk on the road as the newly laid path is totally shoddy, very uneven, and totally dangerous.

[max 13]

I think a poll would be in order. Something like:

 

In order to improve road services in Sheffield should we

 

Close schools one day a week

Shut down several libraries

Reduce the number of house calls made by social services

Sell off more parks/school playgrounds

Reduce, if possible, maintenance of council buildings

 

You, the people decide.

[nomme 10]

Originally posted by max

I think a poll would be in order. Something like:

 

In order to improve road services in Sheffield should we

 

Close schools one day a week

Shut down several libraries

Reduce the number of house calls made by social services

Sell off more parks/school playgrounds

Reduce, if possible, maintenance of council buildings

 

You, the people decide.

 

You forgot : spending some of the money motoriists pay in road tax and on every litre of petrol they buy.

 

I don't know what they do spend it on but I can't belive it's on the roads.

 

Nomme

[alchresearch 210]

When a friend of mine came over from Holland a couple of years ago he said our roads were worse than Poland's!

[Dug 10]

Originally posted by max

I think a poll would be in order. Something like:

 

In order to improve road services in Sheffield should we

 

Close schools one day a week

Shut down several libraries

Reduce the number of house calls made by social services

Sell off more parks/school playgrounds

Reduce, if possible, maintenance of council buildings

 

You, the people decide.

 

But wasn't part of the council tax increase last year earmarked to improve the state of the roads?

[Andy C 85]

The thing with the road/fuel tax argument is it all goes to central government, yet the council has to cough up to maintain local roads!

 

If we are talking about cuts somewhere else how about a ban on SYPTE's harebrained schemes such as mini interchanges et all.

 

As a public transport user living in S17, I get the 25A bus from Bradway to town, or the train from Dore, either way I do not benefit from these schemes, and neither service is subsidised. The only benefits from SYPTE I get is timetable information and ticketing schemes.

 

If money was diverted from pointless pet projects into road and bus stop maintenence, I would enjoy a much smoother bus ride!

[Mo 10]

Originally posted by max

I think a poll would be in order. Something like:

 

In order to improve road services in Sheffield should we

 

Close schools one day a week

Shut down several libraries

Reduce the number of house calls made by social services

Sell off more parks/school playgrounds

Reduce, if possible, maintenance of council buildings

 

You, the people decide.

 

Tosh! Have neighbouring authorities done any of the above to pay for roads. IMO Sheffield roads are the worst in Britain.

[back2basics 10]

Originally posted by Mo

IMO Sheffield roads are the worst in Britain.

 

They are certainly the worst i have experienced. Also the traffic planning is about the worst i have experienced as well.

 

But Sheffield has had tougher problems than most cities. Two of it's industries being decimated. We really are only seeing the other major cities regenerate in the last decade. So i guess we must give Sheffield a little longer to get it's act together. It hasn't had the Banking sector Leeds has had, or the fashion of Birmingham to rely on.

[jjrobbins 10]

I totally agree - Sheffield roads must be the worst!

I find the best time to drive on these roads is the middle of winter when the pot holes are filled with Ice - lovley and smooth and bump free!

 

Until you do a 180 and hit the curb!

[JEC1 10]

Originally posted by max

I think a poll would be in order. Something like:

 

In order to improve road services in Sheffield should we

 

Close schools one day a week

Shut down several libraries

Reduce the number of house calls made by social services

Sell off more parks/school playgrounds

Reduce, if possible, maintenance of council buildings

 

You, the people decide.

 

Well apart from the first, they seem to be doing those anyway. Maybe elect people who know about finances?