Andy C Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Been looking at the road closures for the tour Da pothole and the North of the city is basically cut off . Residents are as good as prisoners in their own areas. People will not be able to go about their business all for the sake of some lycra clad , two wheeled warriors who fancy a bit of a bike ride. If they insist on coming here , they should be forced to take their chances with the traffic like the normal push iron brigade do . There will be some limited public transport options. Trains will run Chapeltown-Meadowhall-Sheffield : http://www.northernrail.org An altered number 37 bus will run from Parson Cross to Darnall where connections with the 52 will be available. http://www.firstgroup.com/southyorkshire Trams will run to Meadowhall. http://www.supertram.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No User Name Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Ok no worries, well I thought they'd be shutting them off fully till 7pm I think they have said 7pm as a pessimistic cut-off time, no doubt many will be back open long before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
999tigger Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 My Fiancée works at a fast food restaurant and she has a shift 0600 to 1445 but we live the opposite side of the TDF so from 1445 she won't be able to get home till 1700. She has called work to explain only to be told "it is your responsibility so you must work, fetch a book and wait at work or something" Can they actually do this? can you be made to work and then wait at work to get home? 1. Does she have to turn up for her shift? Yes if thats what her contract says. Unless she can work it out with management which it seems not. 2. I read your post as saying her shift finishes at 2:45. It seems they were offering her the opprtunity to wait at work or read a book there till it was over and not telling her to. She can leave when her shift ends, but she might have problems crossing the route if the race is actually going on. If the race has passed, then it should be easy to walk across with the permission of a steward. Depends whether she gets there when theres a gap between the race and the caravan or its to do with the rate at which they reopen roads. Seems poor planning they couldnt reschedule her if it causes difficulty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roosterboost Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 I think they have said 7pm as a pessimistic cut-off time, no doubt many will be back open long before. That's not a lot of use to folk who are expecting them to be shut for the duration. You are hardly likely to plan a route hoping the roads open early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No User Name Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 That's not a lot of use to folk who are expecting them to be shut for the duration. You are hardly likely to plan a route hoping the roads open early. Only on Sheffield Forum could people moan about the roads being opened up a little bit earlier than expected :loopy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roosterboost Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 (edited) There will be some limited public transport options. Trains will run Chapeltown-Meadowhall-Sheffield : http://www.northernrail.org An altered number 37 bus will run from Parson Cross to Darnall where connections with the 52 will be available. http://www.firstgroup.com/southyorkshire Trams will run to Meadowhall. http://www.supertram.com My concern with public transport is the obvious one. It is OK getting on a tram at the terminus at Halfway and travelling to the event. It is totally another expecting to get on a tram home when there are 20,000 folk waiting at the transtop half an hour after the event passes by. We went to Wembley to watch Muse about a year back. We got back to the tube only to find the road blocked with folk trying to get into the station. It was a total waste of time as was thinking we would wait an hour for the queues to die down by getting a pint in a local boozer. Edited June 30, 2014 by roosterboost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jemson Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Still not sure where to head tbh. I was thinking of getting a bus as near to somewhere the tour goes through as possible, ideally hilly. Don`t mind a few miles walk. Any top tips? Alternatively, what`d be best for me and my kids, to keep `em occupied all day on the route? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Still not sure where to head tbh. I was thinking of getting a bus as near to somewhere the tour goes through as possible, ideally hilly. Don`t mind a few miles walk. Any top tips? Alternatively, what`d be best for me and my kids, to keep `em occupied all day on the route? There's a spectator hub with a big screen and other stuff at Coronation Park, Oughtibridge. It's right next to a decent climb known locally as Jaw Bone Hill, but on the TdF map it's called Cote de Oughtibridge. You won't be able to drive there but you can use the tram to Middlewood and then they are putting buses up to Oughtibridge. More here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpend Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 There's a spectator hub with a big screen and other stuff at Coronation Park, Oughtibridge. It's right next to a decent climb known locally as Jaw Bone Hill, but on the TdF map it's called Cote de Oughtibridge. You won't be able to drive there but you can use the tram to Middlewood and then they are putting buses up to Oughtibridge. More here. We are thinking of jaw bone. Presumably it would be a park at Hillsborough somewhere. Thinking of going to the Yorkshire dales on Saturday but that's probably gonna be hectic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 We are thinking of jaw bone. Presumably it would be a park at Hillsborough somewhere. Thinking of going to the Yorkshire dales on Saturday but that's probably gonna be hectic On Saturday I'm off to the Yorkshire Festival of Cycling at Harewood house with my family, you can get half price tickets from Amazon local. The Red Arrows and the Battle of Britain are doing a flypast when the tour comes through and there's loads of other stuff happening there, so I'm hoping that my family will be occupied. On the Sunday my friend and I are riding out to Holme Moss to watch them climb the hill there, and then cycling back through the race route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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