Sheffield Bus Changes

[Guest busdriver1]

The 72 is a Rotherham bus and has nothing to do with Sheffield. I use it quite alot when I get fed up. It's probably suffering from too many passengers...

 

And too much traffic congestion in Sheffield. Wonder why?

[SpeedwayDan]

The 72 is a Rotherham bus and has nothing to do with Sheffield. I use it quite alot when I get fed up. It's probably suffering from too many passengers...

 

I said it hadn't been effected with any changes but it seems to be having a knock on effect anyway.

[Anarchon]

I made the mistake of catching the 1 (Stagecoach) service to Firth Park earlier in the week only to find out that it actually doesn't stop in Firth Park centre. It runs down Hucklow Road and then turns left onto Stubbin Lane at the roundabout before heading up Barnsley Road. If you want to 'get off' at Firth Park, you either have to ensure you get off at the stop before the roundabout or the one on Stubbin Lane half way to Barnsley Road.

 

Very poor planning in my opinion. Why can't one of the 1 / 1a services be routed along Firth Park Road or at least have them loop around the one way system in Firth Park Centre? Seems a no brainer to me. Currently 6 buses run along Hucklow Road to Firth Park as opposed to 3 running via Firth Park Road. 8 of the 9 buses service the Northern General Hospital before going to Firth Park with the bus stop opposite the Tesco Express in Fir Vale.

 

If a bus service is advertised as running via a locality, then I'd expect it as a bare minimum to service the focal point of that community and interconnect with any other bus services too. The new 1/ 1a services fail to do that IMHO.

[Tigerfan]

I made the mistake of catching the 1 (Stagecoach) service to Firth Park earlier in the week only to find out that it actually doesn't stop in Firth Park centre. It runs down Hucklow Road and then turns left onto Stubbin Lane at the roundabout before heading up Barnsley Road. If you want to 'get off' at Firth Park, you either have to ensure you get off at the stop before the roundabout or the one on Stubbin Lane half way to Barnsley Road.

 

Very poor planning in my opinion. Why can't one of the 1 / 1a services be routed along Firth Park Road or at least have them loop around the one way system in Firth Park Centre? Seems a no brainer to me. Currently 6 buses run along Hucklow Road to Firth Park as opposed to 3 running via Firth Park Road. 8 of the 9 buses service the Northern General Hospital before going to Firth Park with the bus stop opposite the Tesco Express in Fir Vale.

 

If a bus service is advertised as running via a locality, then I'd expect it as a bare minimum to service the focal point of that community and interconnect with any other bus services too. The new 1/ 1a services fail to do that IMHO.

 

I had the same situation at Firth Park last week.

 

There is actually (or was)a temporary bus stop at the bottom of Hucklow Road opposite the car park the sign is on a lamp post however there is not a hard standing area you have to cross the grass and then squeeze between parked cars.

 

I dont think many people have noticed it including the drivers I only knew about it because a driver told me about it.

 

You are right though its complete joke

[Anarchon]

I had the same situation at Firth Park last week.

 

There is actually (or was)a temporary bus stop at the bottom of Hucklow Road opposite the car park the sign is on a lamp post however there is not a hard standing area you have to cross the grass and then squeeze between parked cars.

 

I dont think many people have noticed it including the drivers I only knew about it because a driver told me about it.

 

You are right though its complete joke

 

Thanks Tigerfan. I was completly unaware of the temporary bus stop near the library (and so too was the bus driver as I'd rung the bell before we got to that point). SYT need to act on this and either make the temp bus stop more prominent (incl. educating 1 / 1a bus drivers to the fact that it exists and they are supposed to stop there if asked) or install a full new bus stop sharpish.

[little tank]

Re service 35 once again failed to run the correct route round Foxhill how hard is it to read a a route map .

[dutch]

I have actually benefited from a small change in the system and made a journey yesterday twice as fast due to a route change.

 

But I would happily give up this benefit to fix the system for those who have gotten twice as bad.

Edited November 15, 2015 by dutch

[Blackbeard]

I made the mistake of catching the 1 (Stagecoach) service to Firth Park earlier in the week only to find out that it actually doesn't stop in Firth Park centre. It runs down Hucklow Road and then turns left onto Stubbin Lane at the roundabout before heading up Barnsley Road. If you want to 'get off' at Firth Park, you either have to ensure you get off at the stop before the roundabout or the one on Stubbin Lane half way to Barnsley Road.

 

Very poor planning in my opinion. Why can't one of the 1 / 1a services be routed along Firth Park Road or at least have them loop around the one way system in Firth Park Centre? Seems a no brainer to me. Currently 6 buses run along Hucklow Road to Firth Park as opposed to 3 running via Firth Park Road. 8 of the 9 buses service the Northern General Hospital before going to Firth Park with the bus stop opposite the Tesco Express in Fir Vale.

 

If a bus service is advertised as running via a locality, then I'd expect it as a bare minimum to service the focal point of that community and interconnect with any other bus services too. The new 1/ 1a services fail to do that IMHO.

 

I have only used the 1/1A service twice and both times the driver failed to turn onto Hucklow Road when heading towards the City, pity about the passengers expecting the bus to follow the "new" route.

[Andy C]

Suggest you all feed back your experiences, good and bad, at http://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/contactus/.

 

I would like to think they will take all such comments into account when planning the next changes to the timetables and routes.

[bagger]

Have I read the journey planner correctly, buses to the Northern General no longer go near the Herries Road entrance?

From what I can make out they go to Norwood Road and then its a ten minute walk from there?