Travelling to JOS18? Please Read!

Important update to anyone travelling to the Joy of Six on Sunday.  Sheffield City Council have arranged to host a mass City Centre bike ride on the 15th which will result in some road closures and traffic calming in the morning.   Unlike last year, the route is well away from the venue, but there are a few points you need to be aware of.

The suggested route to the venue can be found here. https://www.baccus6mm.com/admin/Travel2018.pdf 

This will be free of mass bike riders, but Arundel gate may be down to a single lane.  This should slow things down a little, but not cause too much disruption.

The main issues will arise for anyone travelling in from Manchester via the Snake Pass.   Hanover Way will be closed, which is the direct route to get to the City centre from that direction.    You will have to take the longer way around, joining the Ring Road and then following the main route via Arundel gate. 

Apologies for the lateness of this information.   After last year’s fiasco, we asked both Sheffield City Council and the HSBC who sponsor the event, if they had anything planned for this weekend.  The reply in 2017 was, ‘we don’t know’, and ‘we can’t confirm anything.’.      Subsequent enquiries received broadly similar results.

Despite signing up for any updates we didn’t get any information on this at all until a couple of days ago, our contact at Sheffield Hallam University told us that they had just received the information that there was something going off.  Even at this point, there are no published details of the times and points of road closures.

JOS18 has taken over a year to put together on a shoestring with minimum staffing.   Two large organisations appear to have thrown together a major and disruptive event on a wing and a prayer and not bothered to tell anyone who may be affected.  Argh!