... bricks, 10 miles of drainage pipes, 10,000 tons of steel, 98,000M³ of concrete and 21,000 panes of glass to give meadowhall its spectacular look it has today. Meadowhall's 270 shops created thousands of new jobs and attracted thousands of visitors from many surrounding towns and cities. In fact in the first year there were a staggering number of 19.8 million visitors. The fact that over 7.5 million people live within an hour's drive of the centre, that's an eighth of the British population means that the average number of visitors a year is around 30 million. To get to Meadowhall is very easy. From junction 34 you catch the M1 motorway, both north and southbound. Once there, there are 12,600 free car parking and traffic around the centre is managed by a computer controlled cacti system to ensure traffic flow at all times. Sheffield in south Yorkshire is England's fourth largest city ...

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