£19.4m for bus 'rapid transit' scheme along the Don Valley

[Bludragonfly 10]

The following item is on the BBC news pages today:

 

"In Sheffield, £19.4m will be spent on the first phase of a bus "rapid transit" scheme along the Don Valley towards Rotherham"

 

 

Is is needed when so few buses go along the Don Valley towards Rotherham?

 

What impact will this have for other road uses?

 

What else would you spend £19.4 million on?

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

As it's Governments brass (ours then) I dont see a problem. Every one knows we have money to burn. We must have for daft schemes like this.

 

Better to upgrade the internet to our small country villages by putting in fibre optic cables.

 

Angel.

[truman 10]

The following item is on the BBC news pages today:

 

"In Sheffield, £19.4m will be spent on the first phase of a bus "rapid transit" scheme along the Don Valley towards Rotherham"

 

 

Is is needed when so few buses go along the Don Valley towards Rotherham?

 

What impact will this have for other road uses?

 

What else would you spend £19.4 million on?

 

Wonder if it'll be a couple of tins of white paint to make some more bus-only lanes...?

[RichJay 10]

Wonder if it'll be a couple of tins of white paint to make some more bus-only lanes...?

 

According to this

 

http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2011/12/14/go-ahead-for-extra-21-transport-schemes-list/

 

It's £34.3m and includes a new road link under the M1 (the Tinsley link).

[Grandad.Malky 11]

Faster route in and out of Meadowhall ………… what’s the problem.

 

After all who would want to go to Rotherham or Sheffield.

Edited December 14, 2011 by Grandad.Malky

[gnvqsos 10]

As it's Governments brass (ours then) I dont see a problem. Every one knows we have money to burn. We must have for daft schemes like this.

 

Better to upgrade the internet to our small country villages by putting in fibre optic cables.

 

Angel.

 

It would help,put Maltby and Rotherham on the map and the Super High Info Trail

[Grandad.Malky 11]

It would help,put Maltby and Rotherham on the map and the Super High Info Trail

 

Rotherham and Maltby had their chance with the Super tram ……….. the people didn’t want it………… what as changed?

[alchresearch 215]

Oh dear it sounds like the guided bus lanes that Runcorn has and were going to be put between Leigh and Manchester.

 

They're completely rubbish.

 

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/transport/public_transport/s/1467881_leigh-guided-busway-on-track-as-trees-face-the-chop-along-route

[Stormy 10]

Oh dear it sounds like the guided bus lanes that Runcorn has and were going to be put between Leigh and Manchester.

 

They're completely rubbish.

 

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/transport/public_transport/s/1467881_leigh-guided-busway-on-track-as-trees-face-the-chop-along-route

 

And also the Cambridge one which came in about two years late and massively overbudget. I cannot see why we are spending this money on yet anothet transport link when we have a perfectly good train, bus and soon to be tram-train network serving the towns.

[HeadingNorth 11]

http://www.sy-busrapidtransit.co.uk/

 

 

I presume this has all the details about what's planned. I don't know if the money allocated is to build one route or both.

[shao 10]

Because they have to do these projects as a.) a desperate attempt to boost the economy (using borrowed money again) and b.) as a backwards justification for the existence of local transport planners.

 

Is this a dedicated BUS road that excludes cars?

 

Its probably based on the false idea that public transport is somehow "green" or "sustainable". They really dont look ahead when they make these insane decisions.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Oh dear it sounds like the guided bus lanes that Runcorn has and were going to be put between Leigh and Manchester.

 

And also the Cambridge one which came in about two years late and massively overbudget.

And North Leeds, parallel to the A61 south of Harrogate Road.