Have a gander at the cycle lanes in Cardiff City centre though, thousands using them , NOT
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The Welsh Government has now stopped all new road building.
The seem determined to turn Wales into a country park or something. We'll all be riding round on Bullock carts soon, and all the irritating English tourists will be taxed out of the country so there will be no revenue from them either. Then Drakeford will be happy.
Both the main routes for business and to attract investment in the North and South, both cancelled.
It's insane
Have a gander at the cycle lanes in Cardiff City centre though, thousands using them , NOT
Makes sense, spend the money on maintaining the current network and public transport instead.
There have also been studies that show that increasing transport links from a poorer area to a more prosperous area just results in more money flowing into the wealthier area. From the industrial revolution onward our transport infrastructure has been designed to extract wealth from the country and whisk it away as quickly as possible. It closely resembles other countries that have been exploited for wealth. Any improvements should be aimed at stimulating the local economy, not helping to boost the English one. I think that public transport probably dos that more effectively than new roads.
Yesterday, my daughter-in-law was driving back from Bristol, a journey she does 3/4 times a week. It took her 90 minutes to get from the bridge [where the queues had begun], all the way into Cardiff, to pick up the little fella from our house.
This, on the very day [ 21/6/202] the Welsh Assembly has removed the M4 relief Road from the planning register, thus making it almost impossible for the UK Govt. to impose the project upon them for years to come.
Something to think about, though a lot easier to support if the public transport links are working as they should be.Nine ways climate change is going to drastically alter life in Wales: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/w...going-20832025
What is your opinion about the traffic issue in Bristol ?
Because rush hour there is absolutely dreadful
South East Wales has similar problems
Until we get people out of their cars very little is going to change
You don't seriously think Boris and his mob were going to sort out the M4 relief road do you ?
It was pre assembly election bullshit
talking of cars Birmingham has just adopted a clean air zone around the city basically meaning if your car doesn't meet the euro 6 emission standard you will have to pay a charge for non compliant cars
https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/e...-need-to-know/
think this will be hitting the likes of Cardiff and Bristol in the not so distant future
it will work effectively in Brum as it got good rail and bus transport links in and around the city although heavily congested but I don't think Cardiff or Bristol have the same infrastructure if they plan on taking us off the roads and onto public transport
just look at East Cardiff not 1 rail station in operation yet !
For years I'd struggle getting across Bristol to meetings - it just doesn't have the road network that Cardiff had, but in recent years I noticed Cardiff's traffic was getting worse and worse, and I'd say from what infrequent visits to Brizzle I nowadays make, Cardiff's traffic congestion is now much worse.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I remember reading an article (I think posted on here) years ago which showed that if you have a prosperous area and a not so prosperous area - building a bigger road between the two actually mostly benefts the prosperous area.
The example given was north Wales, where new roads had just hastened the flow of wealth to places like Liverpool and Chester.
England's road network is incredibly London Centric, and as a result London businesses soak up a lot of additional trade
Improving infrastructure without directing everything towards the existing bigger centres would actually help some areas more. A bit like the city region stuff I guess.