A small number of students held a small demo outside The Wave after a student was hit by a car on the way to a lecture a couple of weeks ago.
The protest was led by Haris Jamal, a 25/26 Education Officer candidate. The students stood outside the building with signs that wrote “Sheffield Students Deserve Safe Crossing.”
Whitham Road and Northumberland Road, both surrounding The Wave, are commonly very busy with student pedestrians, while being some of the busiest roads surrounding a university building on campus.
Haris Jamal wrote in an instagram post: “University of Sheffield needs to prioritise students safety and should work with council to find a way for safe crossing. We did a little demo with students to shake up the university.”
The University made proposals to the council following the opening of the new social sciences building to ‘make it safer and more pleasant for cyclists and pedestrians’.
As part of the traffic regulation orders, some proposals included a pedestrian island at the junction of Whitham Road, one way traffic on Northumberland Road between Goodwins Sports Centre and Whitham Road and a right turn refuge for Cyclists.
Although, the changes have not been made as of yet.
