O/T Parkway junction

Rotherham Council seem to pass everything.

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

But Millmoor days has a valid point Brin, it’s a dodgy junction now, the changes will make it more confusing and potentially dangerous

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A sensible driver will be able to navigate it all. If it wasn't deemed a safe passage for drivers to deal with, the highways dept would never have agreed to it. They all have to go through a feasibility study before being granted anything and not be able just throw in a new junction anywhere they please. Plus it will all be controlled by traffic lights so where's the issue?

Sounds like Millmoordays isn't a confident driver.

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Originally Posted by Brin

A sensible driver will be able to navigate it all. If it wasn't deemed a safe passage for drivers to deal with, the highways dept would never have agreed to it. They all have to go through a feasibility study before being granted anything and not be able just throw in a new junction anywhere they please. Plus it will all be controlled by traffic lights so where's the issue?

Sounds like Millmoordays isn't a confident driver.

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The problem lies with the left hand lane to go on M1 northbound. Drivers get in that lane thinking they can go straight on to Rotherham and realise it’s the wrong lane and try to force their way into the correct lane. The new development only adds to this confusion

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

The problem lies with the left hand lane to go on M1 northbound. Drivers get in that lane thinking they can go straight on to Rotherham and realise it’s the wrong lane and try to force their way into the correct lane. The new development only adds to this confusion

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Grist, are you talking as though you have left the M1 northbound and got off at Catcliffe and taken the left hand slip road because you want to go to Rotherham?

If so, if any driver looks into the road as you leave the M1 to go to Rotherham, it is clearly marked Sheffield, M1North, Rotherham and M1 South in that order left to right. What is hard to understand and follow the correct lane?

I know as you cross over the M1 to go to Rotherham, and after you have gone through the traffic lights, there is now only one lane feeding into Rotherham where there use to be two lanes and may catch drivers out if they are not paying attention. This does however split out to two lanes as you head down towards the roundabout.

As for the new service centre it doesn't roll out until 2025 so there's plenty of time to rejig any layout if deemed unsuitable/dangerous. Maybe it's too late now for a public consultation where people can air their concerns?

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

This project was originally planned for two junctions further up at j35 but the tree huggers and nimbys raised objections so the old industrial land at j33 became the favoured spot.

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I'm not quite sure if that's right.... I believe they were two different companies both eyeing up additional services?

Regardless, the junction is massively improved since the triple lane conversion and the traffic on my commute down the Parkway and then up the M1 is much, much lower than it was in say 2018. Easy saves me 5/10 a day.

There was a company back in mid 80s and again in the 90s that wanted the land to do the exact same, but never went anywhere.

As for the jobs aspect, they'll go to the usual types. Typically students, local youth and of course those on student visas somehow managing to work full time.

They plan on building homes on the opposite side of the the tracks next to Whitehill lane / Rotherham Road. How that's going to work for surface water in an already boggy bit of land I don't know.

Would have been smart to put a footbridge over the railway from the Howarth estate, they'd have gotten trade from there I suspect.