Olive Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 To be fair, that only says that per person, we are travelling at about the same rate that we were in the mid 90's. What it doesn't say is how many more people are actually making those trips. Posted from Sheffieldforum.co.uk App for Android Good point, will have to see if there's anything on number of journeys overall. Also, I'm not saying car ownership, traffic, parking etc isn't a problem per se. Just wondering if all the tinkering has actually made much improvement overall. I can totally see that there are some reall black spots, where residents are plagued by traffic noise and conjestion, but on the whole I suspect that many measures implemented have just made things bad elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milquetoast1 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Just driven from Meadowhead to Carterknowle Lane ... journey time 43 mins! At least I had the amusement of watching all the cars speeding down the left-hand lane down Meadowhead and then doing a U-turn in Morrisons to continue down Chesterfield Road. There seemed to be more cars doing this than actually waiting in the queue. I'm glad I don't travel on this stretch of road very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JME52K Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Just driven from Meadowhead to Carterknowle Lane ... journey time 43 mins! At least I had the amusement of watching all the cars speeding down the left-hand lane down Meadowhead and then doing a U-turn in Morrisons to continue down Chesterfield Road. There seemed to be more cars doing this than actually waiting in the queue. I'm glad I don't travel on this stretch of road very often. You would have been better off driving down Greenhill Avenue/Bocking Lane. I live just off Abbey Lane (Woodseats end) and I always go that way unless it's very quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Just driven from Meadowhead to Carterknowle Lane ... journey time 43 mins! Your journey might have been quicker if Carterknowle Lane had existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welder1 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 The trouble with Woodseats Traffic as i see it, it stems from the Bridge at Heeley bottom ever since they narrowed it and took the "two lanes in to town inthe morning" between 8 and 9-30 am then "two lanes back out 4-30 to 6-30" out. It has a kock on effect all the way to Woodseats.Put these lanes back get rid of some of the crossings(how can you have a crossing every 100yds in a quarter of a mile) take the shelterd parking bays out between 8 and 9-30am and 4-30 and 6-30 this lets traffic flow,it worked well before planner 1 and friends got there hands on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteowl Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 worked well before planner 1 and friends got there hands on it. Erm, no it didn't. Not sure what can be done, it's just too many cars going down a single lane road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ousetunes Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Erm, no it didn't. Not sure what can be done, it's just too many cars going down a single lane road. With far too many pedestrian crossings all poorly sequenced (unless you're a pedestrian). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangerthe6 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Just driven from Meadowhead to Carterknowle Lane ... journey time 43 mins! At least I had the amusement of watching all the cars speeding down the left-hand lane down Meadowhead and then doing a U-turn in Morrisons to continue down Chesterfield Road. There seemed to be more cars doing this than actually waiting in the queue. I'm glad I don't travel on this stretch of road very often. If someone from the Council actually monitored these lights they'd see the timings are totally wrong. At the times the bus lane isn't in operation which is all except the rush hours it's often quicker to do as you've described above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planner1 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 (unless you're a pedestrian). We're all pedestrians when we get out of the car, aren't we. ---------- Post added 01-11-2013 at 20:42 ---------- it worked well before planner 1 and friends got there hands on it. No it didn't, as others have said. There were queues there as far as I can ever remember. It wasn't one of my schemes either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I sometimes wonder where all these people are going. They can't all have anything that important to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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