05/03/2025
Join the road safety team from Carmarthenshire County Council for a Motorcycle Skills Day on Sunday, 13th April at Owl’s Nest and The Gym Shed, Llandovery.
This free-of-charge event is your chance to enhance your riding skills and boost safety on the roads. Whether you’re a seasoned rider or just starting out, the team has got you covered with engaging taster sessions and expert advice from organisations dedicated to making you a better rider!
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04/03/2025
Flintshire County Council has secured Welsh Government funding to deliver significant active travel and sustainable travel improvements in Aston and Hawarden.
The upcoming scheme will enhance connectivity along Lower Aston Hall Lane, providing a shared-use off-road footway/cycleway facility. This will link with the recently completed Aston Hill/A494 shared-use path, providing a safer and more accessible route for pedestrians and cyclists. Additionally, the project will deliver a new zebra crossing and essential carriageway improvements which will further support safe and sustainable travel.
The work on Lower Aston Hall Lane has now begun and will last approximately 10 weeks. Traffic management measures will be in place throughout the construction period, with access maintained for residents, local businesses, and the travelling public. Flintshire County Council appreciates the continued cooperation and support of the local community during these essential works, which will deliver long-term benefits for all.
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26/02/2025
Officers patrolled the Alway, Ringland, Lliswerry and Maindee areas of Newport recently as part of Operation Harley, the Gwent Police approach to combating the illegal use of off-road bikes in Gwent.
An electric motorcycle that was being driven without insurance in Alway was seized and a suspected stolen e-bike from Lliswerry was recovered.
Officers also arrested a man in Ringland on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug of class A - cocaine.
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25/02/2025
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council has announced that important measures to promote and improve road safety will be introduced on the A4059 between Abercynon Roundabout and Cwmbach. This follows a review of the road traffic conditions along the route, which was undertaken in response to an increase in high-severity collisions in recent years.
It is estimated the changes which will improve road safety and only add on average 25 seconds to the journey time in each direction, over the distance of Cwmbach to Abercynon – depending upon the time of day.
In December 2024, the Council announced the review had been undertaken and that officers were developing road safety proposals at key sections of the A4059, the main road through the Cynon Valley. Public notices have since been published detailing proposals for change. The Traffic Regulation Order process has recently been completed.
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20/02/2025
Improvements to paths near Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn are having a positive effect and enable more pupils and residents to walk and cycle in this area of Y Bala.
Following concerns about the safety of pupils in the Ysgol Godre'r Berwyn area, Y Bala over the years, Cyngor Gwynedd secured £248,000 of funding from the Welsh Government's Safe Routes in Communities fund to improve active travel options near the school.
Cyngor Gwynedd’s Cabinet Member for Environment, Councillor Craig ab Iago said: “As a Council, we’re committed to enabling more sustainable travel in our communities, and to make it easier for children and families to walk and cycle to and from school.
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13/02/2025
Children in low-income families in Cardiff are benefitting from a new scheme providing free, recycled bikes.
The ReCYCLE scheme forms part of Council's One Planet Cardiff response to climate change and aims to enable more children to use active travel to get to and from school by overcoming the cost barrier of buying a bike.
The donated bikes used in the scheme are all no longer needed by their original owners, but instead of going to waste they are refurbished with recycled parts, ready to be used again.
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04/02/2025
An extra £25m to renew Wales’ major roads and prevent around 30,000 road defects and potholes has been announced by the Welsh Government.
The funding boost will see an extra 100km of the strategic road network resurfaced in the new financial year. Roads that are most in need of repairs will be renewed, with thousands of potholes fixed.
Since 2021 the Welsh Government has spent more than £81m on resurfacing around 321km of roads on the trunk network across Wales. Combined with the forecasted spend for 2025-26 this means that by the end of this Senedd term £118m will have been spent to repair more than 500km of road defects and potholes.
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03/02/2025
Policing’s national operation to tackle drink and drug driving took place again in 2024, throughout the month of December.
South Wales Police officers conducted 4,923 drink driving tests, up 56% on 2023. Of those tests 173 drivers were over the drink drive limit.
Officers also conducted 212 drug driving tests which is 5% more than last year. Of those tests 95 drivers were over the drug drive limit.
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30/01/2025
The Welsh Government's data shows around 100 fewer people killed or seriously injured on roads with 20mph and 30mph road speed limits in the 12 month period after the introduction of the 20mph default speed limit, compared to the same period a year before.
During the 12-month period from 2023 Q4 to 2024 Q3 (i.e. after the introduction of the 20mph default speed limit), the number of casualties on 20mph and 30mph roads (combined) is 28% lower than the same period a year previous.
Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales Ken Skates said: “The data published today provides information for the first full year since the 20mph default speed limit was introduced.
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29/01/2025
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council will begin a Resilient Roads scheme at the A4058 at Dinas, to reduce the risk of surface water flooding in heavy rainfall. It will increase the road’s drainage capacity to intercept and convey rainwater away from the road, while reducing the risk of flooding to the local community.
The scheme, from the week commencing Monday, February 3, will aim to tackle a known issue of surface water accumulations where Cymmer Road (A4058) meets Appletree Road, with several flooding incidents having impacted 11 properties since 2012. The scheme has received a 90% contribution from Welsh Government’s Resilient Roads Grant and will be completed by the end of March 2025.
The scheme will install additional gullies along the A4058 and divert the highway drainage through a new carrier line, down Appletree Road, where it will connect with a separate carrier line that discharges to the River Rhondda. Furthermore, these works will reduce the risk of flooding to the nearby Welsh Water combined sewer, by disconnecting the highway drainage along the A4058. This will increase the resilience of the sewer network in the local area.
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