A483 Junction Improvement Cancelled
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“Wrexham A483 multi-modal corridor improvements and city centre connectivity:
The Welsh Government will work with Wrexham Council to deliver improvements aiming to lower levels of car use – this replaces the A483 Wrexham Bypass J3-6.”
Part of the junction improvement was to improve road safety, as well as improving access to the city. Cuts in road improvements right across North Wales, certainly reinforces the North Wales /South Wales divide.
I wonder how the Cardiff lot expect wagons transporting Machinery, materials & food around the country are expected to do so safely without road improvements.
Some of these junctions are dangerous. It isn’t only car drivers that use the roads.The say it is to help lower carbon emissions, however the transition to electric cars, lorries and buses will automatically achieve that. Where have they spent the money earmarked for all these cancelled road improvements?
What annoys me is that their methodology relies on nebulous sustainable transport strategies that, lets face it, will never come either.
If anything this whole farce makes me want to use my car even more out of sheer spite.
The Welsh and UK Governments are an embarassment but this is soley focused on the Welsh, what are they doing for us. The infrastructure is crumbling quite literally in some parts. There is no real investment/alternative solutions just more cuts. We need solutions to problems not causing society to crumble.
They need to do more to keep the NHS staff happy as this is becoming a huge concern, the longer this drags on the worse the problem gets. You’ll get early retirement if they are part of a couple and they have done the sums, if they cannot cope with the stress they will feel its time to go, some may feel its worth going into other lines of work for more money or a pay cut for less stress. The industrial action and awareness of the issues is not a great advert for getting people excited to work in the profession, so they need to buck up their ideas and come up with solutions.
Blame the climate and then make cuts to alternative transportation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-64640223They say that new roads = more cars and this is why they will not build more roads.
Reality is that growing population = more cars. Without new roads there will still be more cars, they will just all be sat in traffic pumping out emissions rather than getting to where they need to be as efficiently as possible.
If they genuinely want to stop the growth in cars then they need to do something about the growth in population. It is the only thing that will work.
Don’t build any houses. Don’t build any roads. Don’t drive more than 20MPH.
Message from the Welsh Government is clear. Wales is closed to new business.Katy not sure if you are aware but the population growth as a % in Wales has dropped over a 10 year period.
The population of Wales has grown by 44,000 (1.4%) since the last census in 2011, when it was 3,063,456.
The rate of population growth in Wales between 2011 and 2021 (1.4%) was lower than the rate between 2001 and 2011, when the population grew by 5.5%.The hard fact of this is that in the next 10 years the age profile in Wales will show that over 21.3% of population in 2021 were over the age of 65 up from 18.4%. – this figure jumps to over 25% in 5 years and over 30% in 15 years.
We cannot afford to have a reduction in population when we have a rapidly ageing population – there will be less tax being collected and a much high demand on Health and Social Care.
Ageing population will demand more transport so the solution is creation of access to greener vehicles or a massive investment in bus services – the later wil however never meet everyone’s needs so overall no easy answer but dont ask for lower population.
1.4% is still a growing population.
You hit on the real problem. We need an ever growing base of people at the bottom of the pyramid to keep paying for the ones of the top. And always will. Or else the great big ponzi scheme will come crashing down.
The solution. They put the fingers in their ears, go la la la la la and kick the can down the road.
We can’t go on forever like this. Not building roads will not solve the problem and will have zero impact on the number of cars on the roads.
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