🎬 Rotherham town centre westgate spot the cyclist £10 million wasted!
I’m standing at the bottom end of Westgate right now, looking just over the River Don back towards The Ickles where I parked my car.
It is a beautiful day, clear blue skies, absolute perfection. I’ve just walked all the way from the Steel Henge into the town centre and back again. And do you know how many cyclists I spotted using this fancy new road layout? NOT ONE.
The council spent a staggering £9.7 million of public funding on this Sheffield Road and Westgate active travel scheme. Ten million pounds of our money laid out for lanes that stand completely empty while actual roads are blocked, businesses are trapped, and drivers are left utterly confused.
As an ex-British Steel worker who passed my driving test here in ’83, I want to know who is calling the shots. How much more money are we going to waste on this absolute nonsense? 👇
💬 Let me know in the comments: Can you spot the cyclist? Have you EVER seen anyone use these lanes?
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14 Comments
£9.7 million of our hard-earned money spent on a cycle scheme, and not a single bike in sight on a perfect clear day. Who voted for this nonsense? 👇
Total waste of money plus Sheffield now on about chesterfirld road better paths plus… cycling we know where this will go
I never admit to living in Rotherham
Morning Tim, totally agree 😊x
Rotherham was a lovely Market Town before it was Enriched. Now it’s like Sharm-el-sheikh old town. 💩 hole.
The penny farthing will be making a come back soon 🚲 🚲 in fact bring back horse and carts it will be safer for the 🐴 horse and will have its own protected lane.
Maybe they are all wearing Harry Potter cloaks of invisibility Tim
Better watch out on those busy bike lanes duck! 🚴 💨💨💨
The tab for all the madness is going to cripple us forever. We'll be lucky to afford bikes by the time they've finished. We're talking hundreds of millions between there and Sheffield.
Go up templebrough , cycle lanes that look like they have never been cleaned probably because they haven't got an adequate machine to sweep it
Great day for moaning.
Hi Tim, I use that route to and from work 5 days a week – On Wednesday, I saw the first cyclist using one of the lanes outside Magna since *APRIL*…
If I lived nearby I would cycle it but in the car section in the middle and if thats not annoying enough, I'd also do it dressed in lycra to further offend anyone watching 😂
Its a death trap that road
They can spend a billion pounds on Rotherham I'd never go there it's a shit hole.