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Initially they were seriously considering either Cardiff or Bristol. Apparently really impressed with WAG's decision to cancel the M4 relief road on environmental grounds.
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Initially they were seriously considering either Cardiff or Bristol. Apparently really impressed with WAG's decision to cancel the M4 relief road on environmental grounds.
Shame, although tempered by the fact that holidays seem like some long distance dream at the moment.
Yes, I'm sure that was the clincher....Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Whilst that might not have helped the relief road would be about a decade away.
Not sure that’s the sole reason for choosing Bristol.
No, it probably wasn't, but had the relief road been started a decade ago - when the WAG started prevaricating - it would now be complete. I can imagine Drakeford & Co. selling the airport's accessibility ".. you see, you park your car here, get on a train here, then change at Cardiff for Barry, then get a bus or taxi to the airport. See ? "
Bristol is a far better airport geographically makes perfect sense .
I'm sure if we tried to develop Cardiff Airport the environmental outpouring will be deafening as it was for the M4 relief
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48512697
"" The Welsh Government will not build the £1.6bn M4 relief road, First Minister Mark Drakeford has decided.
He axed the scheme because of its cost and impact on the environment. ""
What a bastard. Imagine a politician being concerned about public money and the environment. Disgraceful.
Says the man that complained about castle street being closed
Yup, because that was a massive waste of public money and did sweet **** all for the environment.
It did actually alter it for some though, it piled more traffic onto the roads that remained open to the detriment of the of the folk living in those areas and their environment becoming worse.
Haven’t they spent trillions already on bits of paper and compulsory purchases ?
If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times, don’t exaggerate
Several airports have direct train-lines from centre which would improve transport links without being so bad for the environment. That (improved public transport) is far more likely that a relief road and would work just as well.
Is the correct solution. Straight off the train onto the plane, more or less, and the same on the return leg. Taxi from the house to Cardiff General, train directly into Rhoose Airport, improve the rail network I say
Don't think Cardiff Airport's problems are anything to do with transport links, despite that new by-pass around Bedminster, Bristol Airport can still be a nightmare to get to. You've got a very affluent catchment area including Bristol itself, Bath and the Cotswolds are close by. B.A , Manx, Air Wales, BmiBaby and Flybe all tried different routes from Cardiff over the years and struggled to make it work.
Sadly neither Cardiff council nor WAG has any real interest in developing public transport, they just like to talk about it and then punish car users for not using a totally inadequate and sometimes non-existent facility.
Talking of the sore point of traffic retrictions and Cardiff City Centre, I tried to drive into town this morning to do some of my regular shopping. I couldn't get in. It was impossible.
I drove done around the bottom intending tp park in the St David Centre. I couldn't get near it. The traffic in Callaghan Square waiting to turn right into Bute St didn't move for 10 minutes.
so I thought I'd go round by the prison, turn left and come in that way. no chance, the traffic waiting to turn left was stationary.
so I drove up by the back of the blind institute, exactly the same.
I ended up going through splott up to the junction with Newport Rd Glossop Terrace. The traffic goin into town was stationary. I ended up going up City road to Gabalfa tesco and then home.
The number of people going into town was ridiculous. I'm a regular shopper there and I have never seen traffic like that on a normal saturday.
2 things spring to mind. If the council gave people easier access to the other car parks and stopped putting up signs suggesting they are no reachable this wouldn't happen.
The second, and in this environment more disturbing, is so many people obviously not doing the least they need to. It was seriously worse than Christmas.
Cardiff Airport is ****ed , its a bit potty that two cities of similar size have two similar sized airports and are only 40 miles apart
Birmingham is a fairly big airport and caters for Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Stoke etc
The North West of England has Manchester and Liverpool airports serving huge populations
It seems daft to try and push Cardiff Airport when Bristol is years ahead of us , the new link road from the M4 to Cardiff Airport via Barry is going to be a complete waste of money and ruin the environment , best off using Cardiff for freight and accepting if you want to feck off the hamburg , you have to drive an hour and twenty minutes to Bristol
I can remember when Cardiff was the larger airport.
Sadly, it’s been left behind.
Bristol has had more extensions than the Allbright pub. It’s still a nasty cramped airport, though - particularly the Border Force Area, which is one big bottleneck.
It’s succeeded because they’ve wrung every last penny out of it.
As another poster said, it has a more affluent catchment, which means it’s not as dependent on the charter market and it's also closer to the rest of the UK than Cardiff, which is always going to be a problem.
As usual, money talks.
It’s a bit unfair comparing the two airports. Location is the main factor and Cardiff Airport isn’t going to shift. There’s a much vaster population in touching distance of Bristol Airport than Cardiff’s. I’m just glad we’ve got a local airport and I use it whenever possible.
There's the problem tea ??I sat down on the road there today, couldn’t even get a cup of bastard tea!!!!! Outdoor dining be bollocksed
( No profit in that.)
16 vodka / Red Bull shots served in minutes.
But remember the rules, you had to order at least £10 worth of food to be allowed alcoholic drinks, and that from one of the participating restaurants, most of which you'd never heard of or wouldn't go to given a choice.
Indeed all that modernisation? Who needs it .
Anyways they are ploughing millions into other projects such as a modern Cardiff and Valleys transportation system to fit the needs of our Capital City , or should we stay with the pollution of areas from our clogged up roads such as the M4 , A470.
The south Wales Metro scheme will make no difference to the difficulty of getting through the tunnels at Malpas tho.
Covid 19 has helped this problem enormously. Heading towards the tunnels on Friday afternoon is no longer the headache it once was .
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