And finally… Sheffield goes Dutch
Work on the city’s first Dutch-style roundabout started in April 2023 and is now nearing completion.
The roundabout is designed to make it safer and easier for pedestrians and cyclists, as part of a wider city council plan to improve sustainable transport links between the city centre and the Kelham and Neepsend area.
New zebra crossings are being installed at each arm of the roundabout, giving pedestrians priority over vehicles.
There is also a one-way segregated cycle track, moving clockwise, around the roundabout, with vehicles required to give way at each arm of the roundabout.
Contractor John Sisk & Son will be working during the night to resurface the roads.
Cllr Ben Miskell, chair of the transport committee at Sheffield City Council, said: “Sheffield is changing, and the way people get around is also transforming.
“We’re making it safer, easier and greener for you to enjoy everything the city has to offer. The introduction of the new Dutch-style roundabout will continue that, linking in perfectly with award-winning Grey to Green offering along with our other regeneration projects at Castlegate, Attercliffe, West Bar and Heart of the City among many others.”
What a total waste of tax payers money. Yet again this is going to more accidents. More traffic and is a total nightmare for larger vehicles. Think money should be invested into schools and opening more shops in the centre.
By Ky moynihan
We’re in Sheffield, not the Netherlands. These ludicrous schemes are solely designed to make the motorists life as difficult as possible. There’s cycle lanes all over Sheffield and hardly any cyclists use them. What a total waste of money as usual from the council. Why not spend the money on correcting the roads that were resurfaced not that long ago. Another bodge job. You couldn’t make it up!
By Jonathan
It is all very well to increasingly prioritise pedestrians, but they must also accept responsibility for their own safety on the roads. Too many pedestrians have no road sense, and it is scary to see their behaviour, especially when they have children with them. An accident waiting to happen.
By Glen E
That’s one way of pushing cars out completely.
By Jools
Yep, We are pretty close to gridlock now, that should see to it once and for all.
By Anonymous
All this money spent on cyclists but it’s the car drivers that pay for it .wake up Sheffield council make Sheffield more car friendly and shoppers will return
By Anonymous
Killing the economy. No sane person asked for it. No cars No Ecarnomy
By Anonymous
Great to see the council investing in sustainable travel 👍
By Anonymous
Time will tell. Hope it works it’s been a long time in the making.
By [email protected]
Dutch roundabouts! Fantastic in the flattest of country’s. Good luck in the seven hills of Sheffield getting all those fokes off buses and out of their cars to do the 200 yards of flat roads through the city’s centre. Idiots!!!
By Andrew
The City can spend lots of money on this sort of project, but most pedestrian crossings in the city, give priority to vehicles. Bus services in some areas are very poor, for example, the loss of the number 11 has been a disaster for many people. This is not the only route that functions badly, there are many more. A fancy roundabout at the bottom end of town is one thing. Public transport that attracts passengers and serves them well, that is the ‘Elephant in the room’.
By John Cawthorne
This is such good news – well done Sheffield! Could you also think about making the rest of the city’s cycle lanes permanent, so that cars don’t park in them?
By Terry H
Get Fargate finished, before you start doing other projects/ areas. Absolute
disgrace, for visitors who would come
into city on supertram. Only have to visit
our cathedral then turn round and look
up Fargate. GET THIS SORTED!! DOES, NO
ONE WORK ON THIS ON SATURDAY ‘S’ EITHER!! Walked up & down there today,
10 – 4pm Nothing happening and shop
owners also suffering. Extremely hazardous too for disabled to get into Mark’s & Spencer shop.
By Mary Littlewood
Waste of money
By Anonymous
*Sheffield is changing, and the way people get around is also transforming*
Congestion is at an all time high because of these idiotic decisions to push the bicycle agenda. Well done dummies
By Adam
What about pensioners and people that can’t walk far,disabled? With so many banks closing, there’s only the ones in town left.The buses have even been pushed out of the town centre. These schemes only benefit the young and fit. Cycling is fine, but are all these expected cyclists going to shop, no, how cloudless they then cycle home with M & S bags off the handle bars. Have you actually looked at the calibre of shops on offer in the centre now, it’s dire! Our bustling city has been destroyed over the decades.When people ask me what’s good about Sheffield, I tell them the M1 to Leeds!
By Anonymous
Money well spent, it’ll be used a lot. 🤔
By Chris
Great for the fit rubbish for those who depend on driving everywhere
Terrible planning
By Anon
£330 million wasted, when a set of 4 traffic lights would suffice.
By Chas Armo
All this money spent, for what at most 30 cyclists a day will use
By Anonymous
Love the future thinking but until the government decriminalised alternative electric modes of transport like electric skateboards then it will forever be held back
By Axl
What an absolute cock up in an already desolate part of the centre of Sheffield!
By Anonymous
What waste of time and resources
By Mustafa
I hope when all this work is done finished and the workers have gone it does improve because, as it is now and has been for as long as I can remember it is a DUMP SCRUFFY place to try to walk around and do your business I truly don’t know what visitors think
By Anonymous
Lunatics
By Anonymous