cuttsie Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 (edited) Does this mean I'll need to find a new car park? It's a long walk from Dixon Lane. The bus has been around a few years, well before the market, cuttsie. Real shame it's stopping, but the only way it's related to the market is it goes past it. It is related to the new Mall by the Council who used it in their publicity to attract shoppers to the building. Edited February 1, 2014 by cuttsie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazjea Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 It is relate to the new Mall by the Council who used it in their publicity to attract shoppers to the building. If it will affect the new market, surely it would have affected Castle Market as well. As that area was part off its route, just as the Moor area is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Glypta Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 It is relate to the new Mall by the Council who used it in their publicity to attract shoppers to the building. And presumably as a hook when trying to sign up stall holders at increased rents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Shoes Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 And presumably as a hook when trying to sign up stall holders at increased rents. Why do you have a problem the increase in rents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smiggs Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 It is relate to the new Mall by the Council who used it in their publicity to attract shoppers to the building. It's a bit rich by the council to talk up freebee one minute and close it the next but if they'd revamped or renewed Castle Market the same would have been true. The bus closure has nothing to do with the new market and everything to do with having to cut budgets for next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECCOnoob Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 And so! After just approx three months the first chink in the armour is beginning to show. Today's headline in the Star tells us that the freeby bus ,the bus that the Council made so much noise about when they moved the Markets is going to be scrapped. A kick in the teeth for traders and old Castle Market customers alike eh! Hardly. People will simply have to get one of the other hundreds of buses that pass the moorfoot every day. Pensioners and the disabled who have mobility issues and NEED to use the bus to get around already have a permanent freebie on any route they choose. Its called a bus pass. Those others who cannot or wont walk to the Market will simply have to pay a nominal charge or choose to park their cars at one of the dozens of car parks around the new Market hall or simply stay on the bus since half the routes in Sheffield pass the Moor at some point in their journey anyway. Ah diddums, they have to stay on the bus a little longer - so what? I never got the whole freebie thing. If you were coming into town on public transport in the first place, 9/10 your own bus route would have to cross some parts of the city centre as part of its scheduled route and therefore offered multiple stops to either board or alight. Example, if you are coming into town on a 97/75/76/20/52/ from north or south Sheffield - all of these routes will have passed through both Haymarket and Moorfoot as part of the journey. So if you want to get to the "market hall" you simply adjust where you alight accordingly. People USED to get off buses in Haymarket now they dont. They get off at Moorfoot instead. Hardly a great inconveninece. If someone starts their shopping in market hall at the Moor but ends up finishing their shopping in M&S - they dont need to get a freebie back to the moorfoot. They just get on their normal bus home from a different stop. Im sure there are dozens and dozens of other bus routes which offer the same. I never did see the need for this constant 10 minute rolling freebie. Who really needed it? As I say above. If you have mobility issues you have a free pass. If you choose to use it because its quick or simply laziness. Get over it. Walk. Even the great Meadowhall invovles a treck from one side to the other sometimes. They dont need to provide a free buggy services to EVERYONE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewC Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 And so! After just approx three months the first chink in the armour is beginning to show. Today's headline in the Star tells us that the freeby bus ,the bus that the Council made so much noise about when they moved the Markets is going to be scrapped. A kick in the teeth for traders and old Castle Market customers alike eh! I don't recall it being that prominent in promotional material. Coincidentally, First have just altered several services to provide better links between the north-west (Stannington/Loxley etc) and the new markets, after feedback from customers. The ending of the freebee route is not a sign of the markets doing badly, Cuttsie. Keep feeling round the floor some straws to clutch at, fella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Glypta Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Why do you have a problem the increase in rents? Who do you think it is that ultimately pays the higher rents? ---------- Post added 01-02-2014 at 15:38 ---------- It's a bit rich by the council to talk up freebee one minute and close it the next but if they'd revamped or renewed Castle Market the same would have been true. The bus closure has nothing to do with the new market and everything to do with having to cut budgets for next year. That's very true. Someone has to pay for The Student Games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewheeldave Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 There's no such thing as a free bus. Just buses paid for by people who don't use them. No it was free dude- you got on, it moved you, you got off, with no money changing hands- free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spilldig Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 No it was free dude- you got on, it moved you, you got off, with no money changing hands- free. How was it free ? It was subsidised by the PTE with public money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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