{"id":693217,"date":"2026-01-13T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T13:27:12","slug":"sheffield-station-passengers-braced-as-major-road-overhaul-begins-to-tackle-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/693217\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEFFIELD STATION PASSENGERS BRACED AS MAJOR ROAD OVERHAUL BEGINS TO TACKLE GRIDLOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SHEFFIELD-STATION-PASSENGERS-BRACED-AS-MAJOR-ROAD-OVERHAUL-BEGINS-TO-TACKLE-GRIDLOCK.jpg\" style=\"width: 850px; height: auto;\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Commuters and motorists are &#8220;braced&#8221; this week as a major reconfiguration of Sheffield station\u2019s access roads begins, aimed at finally ending years of traffic chaos and air pollution.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Under the new plans, taxi drivers emerge as the &#8220;big winners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Black cabs will be granted &#8220;exclusive access to the under-cover pick-up area&#8221; directly by the station doors, while private hire vehicles are set to take over the current public set-down zone.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">To streamline the flow of vehicles, a new one-way system will be implemented, forcing all traffic to &#8220;enter via Fornham Street and leave via Turner Street.&#8221; Other key changes include:<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">Philippa Cresswell, customer experience director at East Midlands Railway, stated the changes would &#8220;ease congestion and improve air quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">She noted that the new layout will create a &#8220;smoother, safer way for cars to drop off passengers,&#8221; adding:\u00a0\u201cWe hope customers and taxi drivers see a real difference accessing the station by car once the changes are live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">The overhaul follows a period of tension, including a protest last year where taxi drivers refused to pay for annual permits.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"9\">Hafeas Rehman, chair of Sheffield Taxi Trade Association, welcomed the move, noting that the station has suffered from congestion issues for &#8220;at least 10 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"10\">While acknowledging that some passengers may now have &#8220;further to walk&#8221; to reach the new public drop-off point, Rehman defended the plan:\u00a0\u201cAt other interchanges around the country people have to walk much further compared to Sheffield, even after moving the drop-off to Cross Turner Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"11\">The project, a joint effort between Sheffield City Council and East Midlands Railway, is expected to be fully operational this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commuters and motorists are &#8220;braced&#8221; this week as a major reconfiguration of Sheffield station\u2019s access roads begins, aimed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-693217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115888027021379654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}