The Wildlife Trust tell me the more natural scrub environment that will emerge afterwards may well have benefits for biodiversity. I covered the reasons behind this work last year, and it’s fair to say that one of Sheffield and the Peak District’s main beauty spots will be radically different in six months time. I’ll have more on what they decide in future posts. So presumably councillors on Wednesday have to weigh up those concerns from Bannerdale against the safety and quality of life improvements for the families of central Nether Edge.
(I’ll have a rough explainer on this in this week’s Latest from Bill’s Mother’s ). But a body of evidence from elsewhere in Europe and the UK suggests that surrounding traffic flows for these sorts of schemes eventually settle down, thanks partly to the magical-sounding phenomenon of traffic evaporation, which is real, and well understood by the planners.
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How many of those were drivers trying to get up or down Archer Lane, then coming back again when they found they couldn’t, is not shown. Often drivers trying to avoid Abbeydale Road and the restriction on Archer Lane, I gather, with between 160 and 170 extra vehicle trips travelling through in an average hour of morning or evening rush hour.
At a time when overall traffic has increased across the city.īut there are significantly fewer vehicles travelling through Nether Edge and quite a lot more people walking and cycling, and interestingly, less crime.Īn area of concern to some, I hear, is where Bannerdale Road meets Brincliffe Edge road near Ecclesall Road South, where the counts show car traffic increased quite a bit between May 22 and May 23. The officers who’ve done the work (designed to make life nicer and safer for people living in Nether Edge, remember) recommend keeping the schemes as they are, including the opening up of the hill on Archer Lane to kids walking to school, but keeping it closed to car and van drivers in a hurry to get to work.Īfter delving through some of the data (I’ve only had a couple of hours as yet) it seems the common complaint that congestion on Abbeydale Road has mushroomed as a result of the scheme is misplaced, with average car journey times going up by around 15-30 seconds northbound between Chippinghouse Road and the big Tesco, and 0-17 seconds southbound. There’s a pile of data about all this you can read through if you like, and I’d certainly recommend all the councillors making their decisions on Wednesday have a careful look, as it seems to me that the data says something very different to what they’ll hear from some of the shouty folk in social media world.
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