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The 51 and 52 buses heading towards town will take a different route near the university and Weston Park from Monday 13 June.
Routes 51, 52 and 52a will now turn right onto Clarkson Street at the Children’s Hospital. They will then turn left onto Durham Road, where there will be a new bus stop, before joining Glossop Road then West Street.
The outbound service is unchanged.
Services 51, 52a and 95 – changes to routes & stops in Sheffield city centre
Residents can expect disruption from 13 April as the main roads around Broomhill are resurfaced as part of the Streets Ahead programme.
Roads will close between 7pm and 7am as the work takes place. The disruption will also have an impact on buses and on-street parking.
Pedestrian access will be maintained at all times and access to businesses will be unaffected.
Read full details in Broomhill resurfacing letter (PDF, 554KB)
First Buses have advised that they will be unable to run buses from Blackbrook Road to Lodge Moor terminus from Thursday 7 April to Tuesday 17 April, 7am-7pm, on weekdays only.
Because they will be forced to use Crimicar Lane to turn buses, this will mean the use of single deckers during the period. Last time this diversion was in place, a double decker received damage due to a tree at kerbside, so it is considered unsafe.
First are advising residents that while they will do their best, there is a possible risk of demand exceeding seating capacity on the service at peak periods and around school times.
Resurfacing of the Gladstone Road to Manchester Road section of Fulwood Road will begin on Monday 21 March and is expected to last about two weeks. The work will take place 7pm to 7am.
Bus services from Crosspool to Castleton and Bakewell could be drastically reduced from October 2017.
Derbyshire County Council is considering several options in order to save money, with one of them being to withdraw all county council funding for subsidised buses from October 2017. This means that unless they can be run commercially they will stop.
The Derbyshire County Council-supported services that run through Crosspool are:
The public are being asked to comment on the proposals as part of a consultation, which ends on 24 April 2016.
Derbyshire County Council bus changes consultation
Current timetable for bus services 273, 274 and 275
51&52A; Whitham Road closed Outbound from 7th-18th March between 19.00-06.00 Mon- Fri Please see below for info;^KH https://t.co/ORp7I2VR6C—
First South Yorks (@FirstSouthYorks) February 29, 2016
Residents can expect disruption for the next three weeks as the main roads in Crookes are resurfaced, starting from Monday.
Heavygate Road, Northfield Road, Crookes and Crookes Road will all be closed between 7pm and 7am.
There will be no on-street parking on these roads.
Road Resurfacing Works in Crookes Starting 7th March – Crookes Forum
The 51 bus route will be changed slightly due to resurfacing works for the next three Sundays.
On Sundays 22 and 29 November and 6 December from 6am to 5pm the Crosspool-bound 51 bus will travel as normal to to Western Bank then go left down Clarkson Street, right onto Glossop Road, left to Fulwood Road then continue as normal to Lodge Moor.
City-bound journeys are unaffected.
Concerned Crosspool residents are collecting signatures for a petition regarding the position of the painted white lines on Sandygate Road.
The road markings were repainted following resurfacing work and have divided the road into a wider uphill lane and a narrower downhill lane.
Resident Marie Biggs explained: “My main concern is that vehicles are travelling far too fast up the road and hogging the white lines. This doesn’t leave any space for vehicles and cyclists travelling downhill towards Crosspool, which have to cross the white lines to pass parked vehicles.
“Amey/Streets Ahead told me that the reason the lines are as they are is to allow for the safe overtaking of cyclists coming uphill – but what ablout the cyclists travelling downhill?
“And, if there was to be a collision, would drivers travelling down the road always be deemed to be at fault, purely because they are straddling the white lines?”
The petition can be signed in GT News and the Post Office.
What do you think of the position of the Sandygate Road markings?
Update 23 September: it looks like this work and disruption will now continue until Wednesday 30 September.
Resurfacing work on Sandygate Road will have an impact on the 51 bus service this weekend.
The bus route will split into two at Broomhill, with buses going alternately between Crosspool and Lodge Moore every 20 minutes.
Full details are on the First South Yorkshire website:
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