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I've no objection to Treherbert (Herbert's town) being a mix etc. It's when there are places like Wrexham, (Wrecsam) that I find it irritating.

These settlements didn't all exist at that time. Some of them are mining villages which didn't exist before the industrial revolution. And the older settlements - many of them - were places that were built by the Normans or onwards. It's a myth that every settlement that exists in Wales today...

What I find especially ridiculous is when there are places which have never been known by anything other than their English names, but the Welsh language brigade feel the need to invent new names for these places, which are basically Welsh translations of the English name, or even sillier...

This is informed by the same mindset that has mandated that announcements for train departures and arrivals at Cardiff Central are made in Welsh first and then in English. Plainly ridiculous given the very low proportion of Welsh speakers in South East Wales and indeed, for those arriving from...

Well I'd be pleasantly surprised to see the following (thinking just of South Wales): - Tram/trains north of Cardiff Central - A sensible solution for dealing with the VoG until the Tram/train solution is extended there. - 4tph to Ebbw Vale - 2tph to Maesteg - An additional stopper as far as...

I can't wait to see the announcement, personally. Who knows, they may all surprise us!

I'm surprised this toilet controversy has come back again, despite posters pointing out the various other services around the country without toilets. Apparently the 45 minutes to an hour is far too long for people to be able to wait, but let's consider the alternative modes of transport between...

Public transport or the roads in general is never a big issue for voters. You'll be lucky if it's a couple of hundred voters per constituency who will change their vote in a national election because of a Valley lines fiasco or A470 congestion. And some may even think it's Westminster to blame...

Welsh Labour will not lose seats even if there is a complete fiasco on the Valley Lines. There's only two seats that are in play: Cardiff North and the Vale of Glamorgan. Labour/Tory marginal, Tory/Labour marginal. I just don't think there's enough voters who would fall within all three of...

Yes - I was very sceptical of that statement too.

Those flows are all modes of transport, so they're not driving either. From that data, more people are going from Ebbw Vale to Cardiff than to Newport. Agree, direct train potentially a factor. I wouldn't be very happy if my direct train to Cardiff was rerouted to serve Newport and turn around...

Incidentally, if interested in travel to work areas, then this website looks interesting: http://commute.datashine.org.uk/ You can see, for example, looking at Ebbw Vale, that the influence of Bristol as a work destination is incredibly small. Similarly, you can see that the major flows...

Yes, which I've said earlier, that there should have been an all stops EMU (if the SWML had been electrified) between the centres of Swansea, Cardiff, Newport & Bristol. On Ebbw Valey's railway connections, while I can appreciate the desire for an additional service to Newport, I am sceptical -...

Bombardier with a battery tram that ran 41.6km (under test conditions). https://www.bombardier.com/en/media/newsList/details.BT-20151103-Bombardiers-Battery-Powered-Tram-Sets-Range-Record-01.bombardiercom.html? I can see a situation where say Cardiff-> Pontypridd / Abercynon is electrified...

That list of urban areas appear to be have been put together with the geographer's equivalent of crayons. Ystrad Mynach, for example, is listed in Newport's urban area, which is plainly nonsense. Look on a map. Far too far away. Too many mountains / fields. Perhaps you could argue it's in...

CAF factory opening in Newport, and... http://www.caf.net/en/ecocaf/nuevas-soluciones/tranvia-greentech.php And seems to be already being introduced / tested on the Midland Metro? https://www.pressreader.com/uk/rail-uk/20171011/282449939243829

But with the exception of a few cathedral city anomalies, the only cities are Cardiff, Swansea and Newport. As Newport's the smallest of the three, it cannot possibly be a major city, even restricting the criteria to Wales only. It's a large town, not even really a small city. The concept of...

While I agree with their campaign for more rail services, I'm not quite so sure I agree with the councillor's statement that "(Newport) is a major city". It's just not.

It would appear that Transport For Wales has taken down the 2-3 page Metro line by line packages, and they are now all buried in the Strategic Environment Assessment some 224 pages long. No doubt this was causing too much political pressure, as idle AMs and other interested people were looking...

I had a rare return ride on two Valley Lines Pacers a few months ago. Can't say I was particularly impressed with the state of them - didn't seem like they had been recently refurbished...