Cundy cross roundabout

What you need is for some top councillor, the mayor, an ambulance, a fire engine, to get stuck in the chaos and you'd soon see it changed.
I wouldn't see it until the new season starts so I await developments but one thing that has always surprised me is that traffic queues to Stairfoot roundabout from near to Monk Bretton priory every Saturday. My stretch to Cundy Cross has always been clear. I turn up by C Soars and go down the lane past Barnsley main and to Pontefract road.
If it is causing daily problems then I imagine it will be altered fairly quickly. One hopes, anyway.

 

If the building company has paid for the new layout that's fair enough but even then why would they choose the expense of traffic lights when a new roundabout would have been fine . The main objective at cundy cross should have been an improved traffic flow . The new junction has had the reverse effect .

 

Tourist attraction? Who knew...

 

Agree totally as now i'm having to travel a different route to work. The company clearly didn't pull their finger out to get the work done on time as there were only ever a handful at best working on it throughout the period. It's a major headache now and the council need to have a planning rethink.

 

Yeah I was going to mention Ponty as I go through there a lot.

I passed my test in the early 90s around Ponty and it was two roundabouts back then, and now it's exactly the same again after only 20 years or so.

What a total waste of money eh?

 

When the ' improvements' to cundy cross started I thought thank God at last . To see the finished product is such a disappointment as were now stuck with it for years . It's an inconvenience to the commuter but its also important to us as a transport company to have good road layouts . I've known our drivers who are trying to get to Carlton , upon reaching stairfoot and seeing the back up , turning up Ardsley hill going thru Darfield on Grimethope and Cudworth bypass .

 

Agreed. The roundabout itself works well but the lights need adjusting. To go from Birdwell to the M1 you get stopped at every set of lights which shouldn't be the case but the main problem is aldi which has got so bad that traffic now queues onto the M1 itself.

 

That’s definitely true because if traffic lights weren’t in place at stair foot roundabout traffic at peak time from Hunningly Lane would be at a standstill with the constant flow coming off Wombwell lane

 

Similar thing happens around Old Mill Lane outside Asda . As soon as more than a few cars want to turn right into the McDonalds drive-through, traffic starts backing up out onto the main road. At peak times I've seen queues up Old Mill Lane and all the way out along Huddersfield Road.

The strange thing about all this is that, back in the day, these kind of improvements were sorted out with a bit of traffic counting and common sense. I expect that nowadays the planners have the benefit of computer aided design, traffic flow simulation software, advanced modelling techniques, and God knows what. Yet the "improvements" nearly always result in chaos.

 

I started queuing at the bridge at stairfoot roundabout yesterday and it took me no longer than 5 mins to get to cundy cross. There was a traffic light guy parked up so don't know if he was changing them or just observing

 

https://www.barnsleychronicle.com/article/chaos-at-cundy-cross