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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27/01/2025
A consultation will be launched on plans to introduce a non-vehicular link between Johnston and Milford Haven with Steynton to Old Bulford Road Active Travel improvements, Pembrokeshire County Council has reported.
Proposals include the construction of a shared use path forming a connection from the Neyland Road crossroad heading North along the A4076 where it will divert towards the C3024, Tiers Cross and the existing Bulford Road Shared Use Path.
There are three phases in the overall scheme with phases one and two being a joint project between Pembrokeshire CC and South Wales Trunk Road Agency. The third phase will form the remaining part of the shared use path between phase 2 and Sunnycroft Roundabout (A4076). This work is expected to commence with future years funding and carried out by Pembrokeshire CC.
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21/01/2025
As part of the Christmas campaign, officers carried out intelligence-led vehicle checks and patrols at known hotspots between the start of December and New Year’s Day.
Overall, officers arrested 108 people during the month-long initiative.
Forty-five were arrested on suspicion of drink driving offences, 57 on suspicion of committing drug driving offences, and 6 on suspicion of being under the influence of both alcohol and drugs.
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20/01/2025
The Vale of Glamorgan Council has trialled a new sustainable repair system to mend damaged roads in the county.
Working with Roadmender Asphalt, the Council tested the Elastomac technique at Greave Close and Walston Road in Wenvoe.
The new system converts old tyres into an innovative road repair material which can lower the carbon footprint of patch repairs by 85 per cent.
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13/01/2025
Throughout December North Wales Police supported Op Limit, a national policing operation aimed at reducing fatal and serious road traffic collisions and protecting road users.
During the month-long campaign period, almost 200 people were caught at the wheel whilst under the influence of drink or drugs.
The annual campaign, which ran from 1 December 2024 to 1 January 2025, saw 66 arrests across the region for drink-driving, with another 108 for drug-driving.
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