Project update - August 2025

We’re making walking, wheeling and cycling easier and safer between Rotherham, Tinsley and Meadowhall. Our Connecting Sheffield: Magna - Tinsley project will help connect people to work, education and leisure opportunities, as well as filling gaps in our cycle network.

We'd like to thank you for your or your patience while we’ve been working near Magna to install the cycle route on Sheffield Road. We're starting the next phase of works during week commencing 25 August. This will see us working a little further along the road towards Rotherham. We’ll connect the work we’ve already done to the cycle route that Rotherham Council has installed to provide a continuous route along Sheffield Road when the project is complete.

We’ll also replace kerbs, do some drainage work and replace a bus shelter. Please look out for signage on street around temporary bus stops.

So our teams can work safely, we need to reduce the width of the carriageway while we work. We’ll introduce temporary traffic lights which will control traffic flow in both directions. They will only be in use while we’re working, between 8.15am and 4pm, and we’ll remove them so traffic can flow as usual outside our working hours.

The lights will be located near Apollo Fuels (what3words reference talent.model.hogs) and the Rotherham-bound Deadmans Hole Lane bus stop (what3words reference pinch.lost.store).

We expect this work to take around eight weeks to complete.

If you have any questions about the project or concerns about the works, please email info@connecting-sheffield.co.uk or call 0808 196 5101.

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