Blogs on the South Wales Metro (or Cardiff Metro), transport, politics, bees and other stuff…
In June 2026 I will be helping run the "Metro and Us" event. The key question is to ask what else we need to do, to maximise the impact of the South Wales Metro and especially to enable wider economic development and regeneration. Click the image for more details.
A summary of the primary rail enhancement schemes needed in Wales to 2040 and justification for £4Bn commitment from UK Government to help deliver them.
We can't stop once we have delivered the £1Bn South Wales Metro. To enable its wider benefits, we now need a Metro Economic Development and Regeneration Programme for Pontypridd and the Central Valleys.
From Illustration of “TOD” from Institute of Transportation and Development Policy This is a slightly longer version of an article published by Wales Centre for Public Policy in June 2024. It is also, in effect, a summary of one of the chapters of my book on the South Wales Metro published in October 2024. Pls … Continue reading Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) #3