Sheffield 10k / Students return and Sheffield Derby

[Mr Bloke]

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This is the same city that forgot to give water to runners a few years ago...

Well I'm betting there wont be any this year either...

 

... it'll all have been nicked by the footy fans!

[bluecanary]

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Freshers week is the week before isn't it? W/e 22nd?

 

Not all second and third years come back for freshers week - lectures don't start until the week after.

 

For the comments from other posters supposing I was bemoaning inconvenience for students, have you thought about the added problem of thousands of confused parents driving around in duvet-filled cars is going to cause for Sheffield residents too?

 

 

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[Eccy Beach]

 

This is the same city that forgot to give water to runners a few years ago...

 

Same city, different race organisers.....

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[jamie0114]

2 hours? Really?

 

So, the run starts at 9.30am. The vast majority of people will take an hour, so 10.30, but there will be lots that take 90mins, so 11am.

 

Then, at 11am, there's the kids race, which takes another hour.

 

So the roads and crowds won't be gone till 12noon. 15 minutes before kick off.

 

Yes, it's 4 miles away, but it's also closing off most of the roads around Brammall Lane (Ecclesall Road, the road behind Debenhams etc), which are main bus routes through the city, not to mention the fact that a lot of people coming from the S2 area (united fans) will have to find different ways round to beat the road closures.

 

I think the OP is perfectly right to raise it as an issue.

 

KO is 1.15 mate, so plenty of time

 

If you go from S2, you can just go down Queens Road to Park Square and round the inner ring road as you'll be able to from most of southern Sheffield. If you're on the west side you can go through Fulwood up to Stephen Hill and drop down onto Rivelin Road. Hardly a disaster and not beyond the thinking of anyone with half a brain. Or you can jump on a tram as they aren't affected.

[Jim Hardie]

Same city, different race organisers.....

........and different event.

[Becky B]

Thousands of people who are slaves to their cars will only consider that as a method of transport. The roads start filling up around 4 hours before kick off on 'normal' match days.

I'm going to find a cave to hide in!

[rogets]

How are people expected to get to the game?

 

This is a stupid idea

 

Its also dangerous, I hope the NHS is on standby as 40,000 fans walk to the game and collapse of exhaustion

 

Its going to be chaos

[Jeffrey Shaw]

The signs are now going up on key parts of the route, as to which see http://www.runforall.com/10k/sheffield/route/ : basically, Ecclesall Road, around Endcliffe Park, and back to city centre. So it might not intersect with matchday traffic.

[biotechpete]

Hopefully the police will order the pubs to close until after the game and then the fans might be sober enough to find their way. Never seen a policeman at a 10k race so plenty of resource to send the riot polive to Hillsborough corner. I can't see a few road closures having so much impact on travel on a Sunday morning.

[scargill]

I really cannot believe we will be closing key roads around the university and key accomodation areas on one of the main dates when students will be returning to the city. Either, alone would cause traffic problems and confusion, but we will have many people from out of the city trying to access key university sites only to find their route blocked. On top of this we have a major football match in the city. Brilliant planning.