Snow disruption March 2013 (Read 2,954 times)

[mainline]

First Sheffield are about to suspend all bus services tonight as are TM Travel.

Tates Travel suspended their services at 6pm into Penistone.

[Luke]

Stagecoach Yorkshire have suspended all services.

[swfcforever]

Saturday 23/03/2013:-
from www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/south_yorkshire

DONCASTER
No diversions reported.

ROTHERHAM
Route 1 and 2 missing Addison Road and Salisbury Road - both services using Rotherham Road, model village
Route 3 - not operating Markfield Drive
Route 4 - operating as service 3 and not using Markfield Drive
Route 7 missing West Hill and Blackburn
Route 15 - not operating East Herringthorpe - terminating at Mowbray Gardens
Route 27 - not operating Wesley Avenue and Beighton
Route 32/33 - now operating Whitehill Rd and Whitehill Lane
Route 34 not operating via Broom Valley, terminating at Worrygoose Island
Route 37 not operating to Reresby Arms
Route 39 and 40 missing service roads at Beckett Crescent using Oakes Lane, not via Greasbrough
Route 43 missing West Hill, using Meadowhall Road, also not serving Bents Road
Route 69 not operating via St.Lawrence Road - main roads only
Route X5 - A57 closed due to collision - services terminating at Aston and operating Aston to Sheffield.
Route X78 missing out Conisbrough both directions

SHEFFIELD
11/12 - terminating at Malin Bridge
14 - terminating at Maline Bridge
13 - operating main roads only to Chapeltown
17 - main roads only Chesterfield Road to Meadowhead and via Halifax Road to Asda and Wordsworth Avenue to Firth Park
20/20a - Meadowhead to Southey Green only
22 - normal at Nether Edge and 25a route to Woodhouse
25a - normal to Woodhouse only Meadowhead south side
35/36/37 - main roads to Meadowhall only via Herries Road to Hillsborough not Wincobank
42/44 - as 120 route on Mansfield Road to Crystal Peaks
51 - terminate Brookhill, terminate Gleadless
52 - terminate Brookhill to Fence, at Woodhouse side main roads
53 - Meadowhead to Asda at Chaucer
56 - SUSPENDED
70 - SUSPENDED
75 - Chapeltown to Meadowhead
76 - Abbeylane terminate to Firth Park via Pagehall to Meadowhall
81/82/85 - operate to Knowle Lane only
95 - SUSPENDED
97/98 operating to Southey Green and both to Totley terminus
120 - Ranmoor Church to Crystal Peaks
272 - SUSPENDED

Due to serious blockage on Chesterfield Road all routes that use Chesterfield Road have had to terminate in town.

Meadowhead roundabout is gridlocked and brought the in bound side to a standstill. All routes operating this side of city are to terminate in city centre.

There is a possiblility that the services across the city may have to be suspended as roads have not been treated and no gritters have been seen. Due to vehicles stuck the gritters may struggle to get around.

from www.stagecoachbus.com


Snowfall disruptions to Stagecoach Sheffield services





Click here for more information


Last Updated : 23 March 2013 7:50




The following services are suspended; Services 52, SL3, 35A and SL2, SL3, 25

Running with diversions:



Service 120 is currently not serving Streetfields and Duke Streets

Service 57 is currently not serving Worrall and is only using Manchester Road through to Stocksbridge

Service 79 is currently running on the following route Ecclesfield via Barnsley Road - Hartley Brook Road - Deerlands Avenue - Asda at Parsons Cross t-Halifax Road - Sheffield. From Sheffield via Chesterfield Road - Meadowhead Roundabout.

Service 79A is running on the following route Chapeltown - Ecclesfield via Barnsley Road - Hartley Brook Road - Deerlands Avenue - Asda at Parsons Cross -Halifax Road to Sheffield. From Sheffield via Chesterfield Road - Meadowhead Roundabout.

Service 83 is currently using Barnsley Road to Sheffield from Ecclesfield and terminatting at Hunters Bar.

Service 83A is currently using Barnsley Road to Sheffield from Ecclesfield and terminatting at Hunters Bar.

Service 87 is currently only serving Chapeltown to Archer Road using Barnsley Road

Service 88 is currently Running from Ecclesfield via Barnsley Road using Stubbin Lane to serve Firth Park and terminatting at Hunters Bar.

Service 265 is currently not serving Worsborough village

Service SL1 is currently using Manchester Road only

Full Service:

Service 123 is currently running on normal route

[The Captain]

Not confirmed but you could say its fairly reliable info-First pulling buses off in Sheffield until further notice conditions just too silly to be operating any kind of timetable. Im told there was 5 52s stuck on Retford Rd at one point. Meadowheads a complete no-go due to a jackknifed lorry and people stuck in cars allover.

[The Captain]

Latest info: the few FSY vehicles out before 07:30 are staying out whilst the rest are staying put in depot. Gritters have doen 2 laps now and most major roads have one clear lane (ie tarmac showing).

[The Captain]

www.firstgroup.com/ukbus/south_yorkshire/travel_news/service_updates/?item=34691&conf=1

[mainline]

The majority of buses are now sticking to main roads only, but there are some exceptions and cancellations.

TM Travel - All services currently suspended.

Tates Travel - All services currently suspended.

Stagecoach Yorkshire - Curtailments on the usual routes in Barnsley like the 1, 6, 11, 12, 43/44, 66 etc. In Rotherham most services are running as normal apart from the 108/109 which are running along the main A633 to Warren Vale roundabout only, therefore not serving the Rawmarsh estates.

Stagecoach Sheffield - 25, 52, SL2, SL3 all suspended. Stocksbridge is Manchester Road only as usual.

First South Yorkshire - 22, 25A, 56, 70, 272 are all suspended. Major curtailments to most routes, some the same as usual (11, 12, 14 at Malin Bridge) where as some are turning short on the full route like the 53 that's running Parson Cross ASDA to Pond Street only. 75/76 are running to Totley.

[mainline]

Sheffield has made it onto the main Daily Mail website, with plenty of photos including one of the Stagecoach B7TLs stuck on what looks to be Rock Street/Nottingham Street in Pitsmoor?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297946/Spring-weather-chaos-Britain-wakes-FIVE-INCHES-snow-100-flood-alerts-issued-gas-runs-drivers-warned-ice-roads.html

[busman3]

A few observations on the woodseats area the road conditions at 1130am were far better than at 8am , the surface now can be seen and the salt as been worked in.
At 8am this morning it was compact snow with grit underneath.

Between the above times we have had 3 amey gritters and two contractors ploughs.

Buses appear to be getting better but first 53/75 & 76 are working to meadowhead roundabout.

Stagecoach 79s are working through meadowhead not seen any stagecoach 25s or First 25a'.

First 20's / 20a's are also working through woodseats and turning at meadowhead

From around 10am there were one each of 43 44 & x17 (Stagecoach chesterfield )


The last time I saw conditions this bad on Meadowhead was in the 1980s and the buses involved were Andrews buses in yellow / blue !

(pics will follow in multimedia busmans photo section latter)

[jakerton43]

Staff on TSY Twitter feed will not be replying to any tweets... "Morning TravelSYorks here. Due to the weather and large number of tweets we're not able to answer individual tweets".

twitter.com/TravelSYorks

[busman3]

I really think it is time for an investiagation into the pte espesially in bad weather

[jakerton43]

An article taken from todays edition of the Star regarding the Snow Chaos..

www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/snow-weather-disruptions-on-south-yorkshire-roads-12-30pm-1-5525360

[alemaster]

Stagecoach 25 finally made it through to Bradway terminus about half an hour ago!

[alemaster]

Mar 23, 2013 14:52:59 GMT busman3 said:

I really think it is time for an investiagation into the pte espesially in bad weather

Why?

They have kept the information flowing.

Encouraging people to actually read what is already published rather than wasting resources by asking the same questions over and over again seems sensible.

Only criticism is in my opinion the website hosting should be good enough for the main website to stay online even when there is a big spike in traffic so people can get to PDF timetables, maps, real time running information etc.

[alemaster]

A more useful investigation would be the reasons buses have not been able to operate in the snow and whether Amey, the council road contractors, could change anything to help.

My usual bee-in-bonnet one here in Bradway is that Bradway Road and Prospect Road are on different gritting priorities, so even when Greenhill Parkway and Bradway Road is clear, the buses cannot run to Bradway as they cannot access the bus terminus so still have to be cut back to Meadowhead or St Peters Church roundabout.