Replacement buses start as major Sheffield tram route remains closed by broken rail

The Star, Sheffield

Replacement buses start as major Sheffield tram route remains closed by broken rail for a third day. Residents describe their experience of the buses.

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00:00 Well you can see behind me the temporary buses that are running from Sheffield

00:06 City Centre to Hathway. Now they're in place because a broken rail has

00:13 effectively meant that trams are not able to run to Hathway in Sheffield today

00:18 and the services are for the first day being run by this bus service. Now Stagecoach

00:27 who operates the trams has been unable so far to give any time scale for how

00:33 long these changes are going to be in place.

00:37 Hello, could you tell me please what you think of the situation on the

00:53 trams at the moment with the Hathway tram being replaced by a bus for the

00:57 time being? First and foremost I was very disappointed yesterday, I'm on jury

01:01 service and I wanted to catch the tram into town so when I found out the

01:05 tram wasn't running I was a bit of a loss, I didn't know what to do so I actually

01:09 walked into town. Where was that from? From Bleakness Town End but I had time to

01:16 do it because I would have to add about an hour and a half to get there.

01:19 But when I realised today when speaking to my relations what now the tram wasn't

01:24 on they said oh you can catch the 51 you can catch the 252 so I went to the bus

01:30 stops on Town End and the first bus what came was this bus here and I've got no

01:35 complaints I think it I think they're doing a good job you know I mean it's a

01:40 broken rail so on Manor Top so what can they do they put a service on. I think

01:46 it's worked out a bit cheaper anyway from getting a day ticket as well. Do you

01:50 think they need to sort out maintenance on the route? It's hard for me to

01:55 say I mean a broken rail maybe does sound like a lack of forward planning

02:00 maybe, lack of maintenance maybe yeah but I can't complain about this service

02:08 anyway they've done a good job yeah.

02:12 [Sound of bus moving]

02:18 Tell me please what your views are on the trams to Halfway being replaced by

02:22 buses? Well I found it difficult this morning because I didn't know they were

02:28 on replacement buses and so I've had quite a journey to get to a hospital

02:35 point so if I'd have known about that it would have been okay but it's made me late

02:44 and getting a first minute so I'm not very happy about the appearance of it.

02:51 Does it cause you inconvenience that it's that it's now buses instead of

02:55 trams? Yes yeah. Was the service as good as the

03:00 trams usually are? Well I seem to have to wait longer for the bus to come so you know I'm not sure.

03:12 Hello, could you give me your views please on the trams being replaced by buses?

03:17 Yeah I think it was a bit inconvenient because I've got an interview today this morning so I guess I was a bit worried about that

03:26 but it's good that there's no replacement buses and the staff are really helpful

03:31 and signposting me where to go. I didn't know that the tram was broken and

03:38 it's been broken since Tuesday I've heard so maybe it would have been good to know

03:43 somewhere that that was happening but maybe I'm not looking at the right places.

03:48 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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