South Road Road Alignment
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			      (C)J.G.Harston
		70 Camm Street, Walkley, Sheffield, S6 3TR

			Version 1.00 - 20-Feb-1996


The Problem
South Road and Howard Road between Walkley Road and Fulton Road is quite
narrow in places and there is often serious traffic congestion, especially
when cars are parked on both sides of the road and vehicles, particularly
buses try to pass them.  There is especially a problem around St Mary's
Church.  Here the carriageway is narrow and there may be vehicles parked
there for events at the church.  Also, it is very difficult for drivers
trying to leave Fir Street to see approaching traffic from the south, their
right.  Traffic problems have further been compounded recently by the
opening of Netto at the bottom of Highton Street in the old cinema.  There
are often times when cars are double parked here.  Even worse is when
articulated delivery lorries try to approach Netto's delivery entrance on
Orchard Road.  Many have grounded on the road at each corner and the
mettelling bears numerous scars from their passage.


A Solution
A full solution would be to implement the following.

1:  Create a parking, loading and bus bay between Cromwell Street and
	Hadfield Street west side (outside Yorkshire Bank).

2:  Reduce the pavement wide between Hadfield Street and Cundy Street east
	side (opposite St. Mary's) to widen the carriage way so parked
	vehicles will not obstruct traffic.  This side of the road should
	be marked as no parking.

3:  Reduce the pavement width between Cundy Street and Hoole Street east
	side, keeping the pavement alignment outside number 260 (the Post
	Office) as it is and the area in front of numbers 258 to 252 as a
	loading and bus bay.  The rest of this side should be marked as no
	parking.

4:  The south corner of Fir Street should be pulled back to a building
	line in line from the revision point at the corner of St Mary's
	School building and a point two metres from the front corner of
	number 259 to allow traffic leaving Fir Street to see south along
	South Road.  This corner should be marked as no parking.  An
	alternative to pulling this corner back would be to align the
	pavement on the north corner of Fir Street in line with the
	pavement on the south corner.

5:  The width of the pavement from Hoole Street to Industry Street east
	side should be increased slightly.

6:  The parking bay opposite Industry Street should be doubled to
	accommodate a bus bay, and the bus stop outside number 261 at the
	north side of Fir Street should be moved to here.  This side of the
	road should be marked as no parking, except for the bus/parking
	bay.


7:  Between Carr Road and Freedom Road, the pavement should be realigned
	by pulling it back outside the Rose House and pushing it forewards
	outside numbers 348 to 360.  The projecting 'lump' in the wall next
	to number 348 should be removed.  This will entail encroaching on
	Rose House property and the open land opposite Highton Street. 
	This stretch should be marked as no parking from Carr Road to
	opposite Highton Street.  The former tennis courts behind the open
	space opposite Highton Street should be utilised as an extension to
	the car park above 179 Freedom Road. This will create approximately
	25 parking spaces.

8:  The west side from Highton Street to Freedom Road should be marked as
	no parking, except for the parking bay outside Netto.



Cut-Down Solution
The following cut-down solution would solve the majority of problems
without having to purchase land:

1:  The parking/bus bay between Cromwell Street and Hadfield Street

2:  Reducing the width of the pavement between Hadfield Street and Cundy
	Street

3:  Reducing the width of the pavement between Cundy Street and Hoole
	Street

4:  Realigning the Fir Street junction

6:  Moving the Fir Street bus stop to Greenhow Street and enlarging the
	bus bay there.

Of these, items 2, 3, 4 and 6 should be considered core items.


Version History
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Version 1.00 20-Feb-1996
Version 0.10 12-Sep-1993

This document is available as http://mdfs.net/JGH/Docs/Planning/SouthRd/TrafImp100