Sheffield City Council has launched a consultation on the new road proposals.
Drivers risk seeing cars ‘phased out’ across a major UK city as city centre traffic prompts action. Sheffield City Council has launched a consultation on the new road proposals.
The shake-up could see private vehicle numbers in the city centre fall by as much as a fifth over the next 15 years. The authority published its City Centre Access and Movement Plan consultation document this week.
The plans include cutting surface-level parking spaces and on-street parking provision across the city centre. The document says “cars with just one or two people in them make very inefficient use of the available road space”.
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It plans to gradually reduce on-street parking provision and “phase out” surface car parks.
The document also referenced reviewing exemptions for bus gates to ensure they are “appropriate, consistent, easily understood and enforceable”.
Councillor Ben Miskell said: “Our city centre is one of Sheffield’s greatest assets. It’s the beating economic and cultural heart of England’s fourth largest city, welcoming growing numbers of residents, workers and visitors, day and night.
“This plan responds directly to what you told us, setting out clear proposals for the next 15 years. It’s a shared vision shaped by residents, businesses and the council and supported by councillors from across the city.”
Miskell added: “We know there’s more to do. To keep pace with a growing city centre, we need a truly integrated and sustainable transport network that works for everyone – helping people move around easily, affordably, and cleanly.
“This City Centre Access and Movement Plan sets out how we’ll achieve that together. It sits alongside major changes to public transport in Sheffield.”
The report describes plans to stop cars travelling into the city centre and to route them instead onto the inner ring road.
It talks about more park and rides, and prioritising larger, strategic multi-storey car parks.