Changes to work areas from 26 October 2026

Our team has nearly completed work on Waingate, on the Castle Hill Park site side of the road. Our next phase of traffic management will begin Monday 26 October, when we will switch to the opposite side of the road, on the corner of the Old Town Hall.

We will continue to remove the existing central island on Waingate. We will also do some drainage and underground ducting works to prepare for the new junction layout and public space improvements.

Waingate will reopen to two way traffic. To avoid much larger bus diversions and network disruption, we need to use temporary traffic lights to help buses navigate around our work area. This will mean buses can swing out from Castle Street, through the gap we are creating in the central reservation and back on their way.

As with the previous phase, we will also need to move some bus stops temporarily. This will mean some services will use different stops, but there will be clear signage on affected stops. You can get up to date public transport information on the Travel South Yorkshire website too.

We will maintain access for people walking and wheeling while we work. The Castle Street taxi rank will stay open during this phase.

We expect the works in this area to take around two weeks, and we will share a further update before we move on to the next working area

The taxi rank will close on Monday 9 November. We will introduce the new rank on Haymarket in early 2027 when we have installed the new traffic lights, and completed other construction works on Haymarket.