Moving from Cardiff To Tumpy Land, any of you done it ?

[NYCBlue]

Move to Barry. Sorted.

[Peajay]

Move to Barry. Sorted.

or so you may think.....With new developments in Wenvoe and a huge estate on the site of the old HTV studios, the traffic will be horendous. Cardiff seems to want to agree on all these new builds, including the huge development set for the outskirts of Creigiau, but little or new news on any improvement to the public transport infrastructure, we seem to lack behind all other major cities I visit. Cardiff is already gridlocked with traffic at peak times and needs to do something with the public transport, or lack of, in advance of or at least inconjunction with new development.

[NYCBlue]

Take the train. 20 minutes.

[Peajay]

Take the train. 20 minutes.

All well 'n good if you are in the vicinity of the station, not so good if you were in highlight park. PT is superb where you are but diabolical in more rural areas of South Wales.

[I.8.POLITICAL.CORRECTNESS]

or so you may think.....With new developments in Wenvoe and a huge estate on the site of the old HTV studios, the traffic will be horendous. Cardiff seems to want to agree on all these new builds, including the huge development set for the outskirts of Creigiau, but little or new news on any improvement to the public transport infrastructure, we seem to lack behind all other major cities I visit. Cardiff is already gridlocked with traffic at peak times and needs to do something with the public transport, or lack of, in advance of or at least inconjunction with new development.

same with the development that's just off ely bridge over to the old wiggins teap site (looks like the road link is nearly done)
the traffic on ely bridge is a nightmare the new builds to the west of city
I'm back and forth kent so spent half the time in Cardiff the other half in kent i haven't noticed much building of homes there

[Sgt. Pepper]

same with the development that's just off ely bridge over to the old wiggins teap site (looks like the road link is nearly done)
the traffic on ely bridge is a nightmare the new builds to the west of city
I'm back and forth kent so spent half the time in Cardiff the other half in kent i haven't noticed much building of homes there

Mmm hmm...

[SuisseBluebird]

same with the development that's just off ely bridge over to the old wiggins teap site (looks like the road link is nearly done)
the traffic on ely bridge is a nightmare the new builds to the west of city
I'm back and forth kent so spent half the time in Cardiff the other half in kent i haven't noticed much building of homes there

My mother lives at the bottom end by Ely Bridge, traffic is already congested there and the additional 700 houses won't help alleviate the situation. The council missed a trick linking the A4232 and Western Avenue at Ely Bridge roundabout, would have eased congestion through Ely, Caerau and Canton, especially when you consider all the development planned in the Creigau area also. Now that can never be achieved with The Mill development.

The new road that links The Mill to Ely Bridge is intended for use by service vehicles only and not for cars. But I am pretty sure that will never be the case. The proposal is that the site of The Mill which boasts, 1 school, a milk factory, doctors, pharmacy and other businesses should all come in and out through one route, which is the crossroads where Broad Street meets Sanatorium road. Not to mention another housing estate with 300 homes that already make use of the very same crossroads for again the only entry and exit of their estate. So that's 1,000 homes, schools, businesses all feeding to one set of lights.

I say to my mother she should move but both her and my step dad are happy there so no need to push the issue. They've improved the cycle path at least and make it easier to join onto the Ely trail, plus the walk to the stadium becomes a lot quicker. So there are positives for them.

[the other bob wilson]

My mother lives at the bottom end by Ely Bridge, traffic is already congested there and the additional 700 houses won't help alleviate the situation. The council missed a trick linking the A4232 and Western Avenue at Ely Bridge roundabout, would have eased congestion through Ely, Caerau and Canton, especially when you consider all the development planned in the Creigau area also. Now that can never be achieved with The Mill development.

The new road that links The Mill to Ely Bridge is intended for use by service vehicles only and not for cars. But I am pretty sure that will never be the case. The proposal is that the site of The Mill which boasts, 1 school, a milk factory, doctors, pharmacy and other businesses should all come in and out through one route, which is the crossroads where Broad Street meets Sanatorium road. Not to mention another housing estate with 300 homes that already make use of the very same crossroads for again the only entry and exit of their estate. So that's 1,000 homes, schools, businesses all feeding to one set of lights.

I say to my mother she should move but both her and my step dad are happy there so no need to push the issue. They've improved the cycle path at least and make it easier to join onto the Ely trail, plus the walk to the stadium becomes a lot quicker. So there are positives for them.

Ideally I'd like to stay in Cardiff, but I see what's going on around Ely roundabout and think I'm better off going to Tumpy Land. Essentially, there are two ways of getting to Cowbridge Road West from where I live in Fairwater - via the Roundabout or the level crossing at St. Fagans. For weeks, the latter has been like the traffic you get at rush hour between the hours of 8am and 6pm and the latter was closed for a few days last week. During that time, a journey to, say, the Aldis on Cowbridge Road was taking about twenty five minutes when normally it would take ten - in the end, I decided to drive through the side roads and over the level crossing before St. Fagans to get to the Drope and come out by what was the Culver!

That's what driving in west Cardiff is like before all of the houses to be built by Ely Paper Mill are filled and before the Plasdwr estate is built and yet you get a smug dickhead on that Jason Mohammad programme a few weeks ago saying everything will be fine - of course, we've had stories like this

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...ation-13367126

since then