The huge, pristine car park built next to the M4 and a busy train station that nobody has ever used The Welsh Government is really struggling to get traffic off the M4 after the decision to cancel the planned relief road
by ITMidget
The huge, pristine car park built next to the M4 and a busy train station that nobody has ever used The Welsh Government is really struggling to get traffic off the M4 after the decision to cancel the planned relief road
by ITMidget
20 comments
Badly placed. Impractical. Foot access is so poor it’s actively off-putting
I can’t imagine why it’s not working
You couldn’t make this up. Built on the wrong side of the track so you put a little foot bridge in with a lift for disabled access?
No trains stopping there is just bonkers.
Another great Welsh government initiative, like the bus station in Barry that has no buses.
Just build the bloody relief road
World beating clownery,with a sprinkling of Chuckle Brothers science.
Or the new st mellons train station and business park as well. The Welsh government called in the project adding an extra year to its development
Labour insisted on the most expensive relief scheme because it was a big project and now we are at the point where we could have had road improvement in Newport finished but instead we have nothing.
Doing everything but building that relief road.
Even if the Welsh Government could conjure up the £1.4bn needed to fund an M4 relief road, its projects like this that give me zero confidence in its ability to make good on the project. It’s plainly obvious that costs would spiral and taxpayers would be ripped off by people all looking for their slice of the pie.
Slight reality check – schemes get built in phases according to available budget. There’s more major work planned for STJ.
Did Welsh Labour do this? If so, vote for someone else, it needs to end
Good. A ‘relief’ road only creates more traffic. Anything but a relief road, please.
They need to do something about the Newport stretch leading to the tunnels. Insane traffic in rush hour
It’s an approximately 18 hour journey to reach rogiet from the M4, I’m not surprised
Pontypool station is similar. Big new car park built over a year ago but has been coned off since then for no apparent reason
Something about a drinking session in a place where they make beer.
I don’t hate many people. I’m an easy going guy, very open minded.
I just spent 10 weeks commuting daily from S Wales to Avonmouth. I had 5 clear days of westward travel. The other 45 days were a disaster. Mornings were hit and miss. Magor was a problem most days eastward. There’s absolutely no reason why there can’t be three lanes through the Magor junction.
I absolutely detest Mark Drakeford, and even Carwyn Jones for bottling the go ahead decision himself.
If people ask should they visit Wales I’d gladly and confidently tell them not to bother.
Companies shouldn’t invest here.
Tourists shouldn’t bother with the airport.
We have a tree planting initiative, a line of trees from North to South.
Wales, the country you can’t drive direct from north to south but you can swing from tree to tree.
Delete please
Cancelling the relief road is the own goal that keeps paying
Building more roads does not decrease traffic, it just encourages more people to drive. What we need is disincentives placed on car drivers, people to live closer to where they work and better public transport links.
I drive Newport to Bristol everyday. This honestly makes me sick.