Sheffield’s city centre is undergoing an exciting transformation. With improvements on Fargate nearing completion, the Heart of the City thriving and progress on the new city centre park at Castlegate, there are lots of reasons to celebrate Sheffield.
Our ambitions don’t stop there. Nearly 20,000 new homes will be created in the city centre in the coming years, which will bring new residents, new services and new opportunities. We need a transport network that will support those ambitions.
What are we doing?
We’re developing a City Centre Access and Movement Plan, which will form the next phase of the evolution of our city centre. This plan will guide what our streets will look and feel like in future, following on from the Connecting Sheffield: City Centre project. Starting construction in early 2025, this project will transform Surrey Street, Pinstone Street and Charles Street into vibrant, people-friendly spaces.
We need your help to make sure our city centre works for everyone.
Tell us what you think
We want to understand how people in Sheffield get into the city centre, and how you move around it. And ultimately, how you want our spaces and streets in the city centre to feel while you travel. We want our streets and transport network to be safer, accessible and inclusive, so that everyone can access everything the city centre has to offer.
You can get involved by visiting our Have Your Say Sheffield website and completing our survey now.
Come and see us
We’re also holding three drop-in sessions so you can find out more. Come and see us on the following dates:
Thursday 12 December 2024, 10am to 5pm at the Winter Garden, 90 Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LH
Tuesday 17 December 2024,10am to 5pm at the Winter Garden, 90 Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 2LH
Saturday 18 January 2025, 10am to 5pm at The Moor Market, 77 The Moor, Sheffield S1 4PF
We’re making it easier to safely and securely store your bike no matter where you live in Sheffield, with more cycle hangars due to be rolled out in 2025.
We want our city to be a more attractive place to walk, wheel or cycle, and we understand that access to secure cycle storage is key to helping people take advantage of our new and improved cycle routes.
What is a cycle hangar?
Not everybody in Sheffield has the space to store their bike at home. And on-street cycle hangars can offer a solution. Hangars take up less space than a single car parking space and open up to reveal space for up to six bikes. Once your bike is stored, the hangar is closed and securely locked, keeping bikes safe, secure and away from the elements.
Currently, there are seven cycle hangars located across Crookes and Walkley, and we want to add an extra 14 hangars across the city in 2025, paid for by funding generated from the Clean Air Zone. And we need your help to prioritise the new locations.
Request a hangar in your neighbourhood
Spaces in a Cycle Hangar are available on a first come, first served basis as part of a subscription service at £72 per year. You can request a hangar in your neighbourhood online now via our Have Your Say website.
There's still time for you to have your say on the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority's (SYMCA) consultation on taking South Yorkshire's buses back under public control.
Under the current arrangement, private operators are responsible for setting routes, timetables, service standards, fares and tickets. Bus companies currently make commercial decisions on which bus routes and services they offer. Where they decide not to run buses, public funding is being used to support some services where communities need them.
What is bus franchising?
Franchising would give a transport authority, like SYMCA, the powers to decide these things instead of operators. They would also be able to decide how to improve bus reliability and how other public transport modes, like trams and trains, connect to each other. Any profit could be reinvested into improving how things work for the public.
Private operators would bid for contracts to run services, and the authority would be able to hold them to account for running a good service.
How can I get involved?
There are certain steps that SYMCA needs to take before franchising can happen, and the next step is to get views from the public via consultation. The results will inform a decision made by South Yorkshire's Mayor on whether franchising will go ahead.
The consultation is open until Wednesday 15 January. Anyone can take part, and you don't have to live in South Yorkshire. You can find out more and complete the consultation on the SYMCA website.
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