Sheffield's Transport Vision To Reshape Travel Towards 2035

[SheffieldForum]

 

Simple, affordable fares, reliable bus journeys, easy and safe routes to walk or wheel to schools, shops, and local facilities, and tackling congestion are just some of items that form Sheffield’s Transport Vision for the next two decades.

 

The plans were approved by the City Council’s Transport, Regeneration and Climate Committee on Wednesday 13 March and set out ambitious aims to transform travel across the city including offering a safe, reliable, and low-carbon network for everyone.

 

As part of the plans streets will be made safer and more accessible for everyone, more outdoor space will be created for seating, eating and drinking, electric car and van charging points will be expanded, with potential for additional tram-train schemes to be developed.

 

 

Sheffield’s Transport Vision has been built around three main themes, people, prosperity and planet. The numerous projects contained within the plan are designed to deliver a transport network that works for all Sheffielders, supports businesses to shape a thriving city centre, and a low emission offering which is resilient to the impacts of climate change.

 

The plan explains what the Council wants to achieve in the next five years including Connecting Sheffield – City Centre to Attercliffe and Darnall through to public transport improvements, planned cycling and walking routes to make the Lower Don Valley area a more attractive place to live, work and invest in. The Vision also includes plans for bus corridor improvements, the Supertram network being returned to public ownership, the Barrow Hill and Don Valley passenger rail line reopening, and a new station at Waverley.

 

Alongside this, an Active Travel Implementation Plan for walking, cycling and wheeling will be developed, along with a Bus Service Improvement Plan which, working alongside South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard, could see the option of franchising the bus network being adopted.

 

Cllr Ben Miskell, Chair of the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Committee, said: 

 

“Sheffield’s Transport Vision is an ambitious plan to deliver a transport network that is fit for the rest of this century. Thirty years ago, our city leaders had a bold vision to build a tram network which allowed our city to grow. Now Sheffield is England’s fourth largest city, and we’re setting out a bold Transport Vision that will help the city develop up to 2035. It will help us tackling congestion by expanding the tram network, improve our buses and make our streets safer. Around the world, the most successful cities understand the importance of investing in reliable, easy to use transport networks to give people genuine choice about how they travel. We want Sheffield’s residents and visitors to be able to have those same choices, as our city moves forward”

 

“Our vision for Sheffield’s future transport system is a bold vision, and it is a shared vision supported cross-party. We will do our bit, but we also need further transport funding from central Government, beyond those already made, if we are to achieve our goal of delivering a transport network everyone in Sheffield can be proud of and one that works for those living, working and visiting the city.”

[actionman]

Thriving city centre😂😂😂

Its the council whats killed it.

 

[Irene Swaine]

6 hours ago, SheffieldForum said:

 

Simple, affordable fares, reliable bus journeys, easy and safe routes to walk or wheel to schools, shops, and local facilities, and tackling congestion are just some of items that form Sheffield’s Transport Vision for the next two decades.

 

The plans were approved by the City Council’s Transport, Regeneration and Climate Committee on Wednesday 13 March and set out ambitious aims to transform travel across the city including offering a safe, reliable, and low-carbon network for everyone.

 

As part of the plans streets will be made safer and more accessible for everyone, more outdoor space will be created for seating, eating and drinking, electric car and van charging points will be expanded, with potential for additional tram-train schemes to be developed.

 

 

Sheffield’s Transport Vision has been built around three main themes, people, prosperity and planet. The numerous projects contained within the plan are designed to deliver a transport network that works for all Sheffielders, supports businesses to shape a thriving city centre, and a low emission offering which is resilient to the impacts of climate change.

 

The plan explains what the Council wants to achieve in the next five years including Connecting Sheffield – City Centre to Attercliffe and Darnall through to public transport improvements, planned cycling and walking routes to make the Lower Don Valley area a more attractive place to live, work and invest in. The Vision also includes plans for bus corridor improvements, the Supertram network being returned to public ownership, the Barrow Hill and Don Valley passenger rail line reopening, and a new station at Waverley.

 

Alongside this, an Active Travel Implementation Plan for walking, cycling and wheeling will be developed, along with a Bus Service Improvement Plan which, working alongside South Yorkshire’s Mayor Oliver Coppard, could see the option of franchising the bus network being adopted.

 

Cllr Ben Miskell, Chair of the Transport, Regeneration and Climate Committee, said: 

 

“Sheffield’s Transport Vision is an ambitious plan to deliver a transport network that is fit for the rest of this century. Thirty years ago, our city leaders had a bold vision to build a tram network which allowed our city to grow. Now Sheffield is England’s fourth largest city, and we’re setting out a bold Transport Vision that will help the city develop up to 2035. It will help us tackling congestion by expanding the tram network, improve our buses and make our streets safer. Around the world, the most successful cities understand the importance of investing in reliable, easy to use transport networks to give people genuine choice about how they travel. We want Sheffield’s residents and visitors to be able to have those same choices, as our city moves forward”

 

“Our vision for Sheffield’s future transport system is a bold vision, and it is a shared vision supported cross-party. We will do our bit, but we also need further transport funding from central Government, beyond those already made, if we are to achieve our goal of delivering a transport network everyone in Sheffield can be proud of and one that works for those living, working and visiting the city.”

For easy and safe routes to walk, the council need to come down hard on pavement parkers. They also need to ensure every road has a pavement. The ones near the round about at Beighton have nowhere for pedestrians to walk. 

 

How can Oliver Coppard run a reliable bus service when he can't even be relied upon to print the timerables that the bus operators pay him for?! 

 

As for connecting the city with Attercliffe/Darnall, that mus be a joke! Attercliffe and Darnall are some of the best connected areas in Sheffield for transport. There is the cycle route, the Five Weirs Walk, Yellow Supertram, Tram Train, 52 Bus, 52A Bus, X1 Bus, X10 Bus, 9 Bus and several other buses running from 2 O Clock Court/Norfolk Bridge a short walk away, such as the X78 & X17. I have a feeling this is to do with the new housing deal that the council have just done to build "riverside" homes on Attercliffe. Oliver Coppard thinks we are stupid. It's like when they closed Pinstone Street for "social distancing" and two years later, they approved a lucrative deal for the Radisson hotel development. Hmmm. If any areas need better connecting to the city, they are Ringinglow, Stocksbridge, Bradfield and Loxley. 

 

 

And please, no more cycle lanes taking over our pavements!

[hackey lad]

What is the vision for expanding the Tram network ?

[Irene Swaine]

1 hour ago, hackey lad said:

What is the vision for expanding the Tram network ?

Expanding it to Stocksbridge. There was talk of running it from the derelict Victoria rail station but I can't see that being attractive to passengers. And I don't see how you'd get trams there in the first place as they would need a track link to the main network (unless a crane will transport them there from Nunnery Square every morning🤭). 

[Planner1]

3 hours ago, Irene Swaine said:

For easy and safe routes to walk, the council need to come down hard on pavement parkers. 

How many more times do you need to be told that they can’t, because they don’t have the powers to do it. 

[Irene Swaine]

1 minute ago, Planner1 said:

How many more times do you need to be told that they can’t, because they don’t have the powers to do it. 

They need to get the powers. They got the CAZ powers. What's stopping them going to The High Court and getting powers to issue penalties for pavement parking? London and the whole of Scotland have done it.

[hackey lad]

3 hours ago, Irene Swaine said:

Expanding it to Stocksbridge. There was talk of running it from the derelict Victoria rail station but I can't see that being attractive to passengers. And I don't see how you'd get trams there in the first place as they would need a track link to the main network (unless a crane will transport them there from Nunnery Square every morning🤭). 

Is that it , to Stocksbridge ?

[Irene Swaine]

14 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Is that it , to Stocksbridge ?

Yes, that is it. In fairness, they've tried to get it to other areas in the past, Stannington and Ranmoor for example and been met with opposition from local residents. I still think Dinnington would be worth looking at. 

[Planner1]

8 hours ago, Irene Swaine said:

They need to get the powers. They got the CAZ powers. What's stopping them going to The High Court and getting powers to issue penalties for pavement parking? London and the whole of Scotland have done it.

The government have to put legislation in place to enable those powers for local authorities outside London.

 

The local authorities have been lobbying for this for many years. The government have talked about it, but have shown no inclination to actually do it.

 

The local authorities can’t go to the high court and force them to.

 

Local authorities didn’t seek CAZ powers, the government put the legislation in place and forced local authorities to implement CAZ’s.