It does feel like a side project for TfW/Amey. Construction started 8 months ago and very little seems to have actually been achieved so far. Maybe there are ground works that aren't obvious but there still seems to be little progress overall.
No and TfW refused to be drawn on when work would start when I Tweeted (Xed?) them a while back. Their PR and socials team are way too cagey, it's annoying.
They want the benefits of being govt owned/ran (such as the pensions) but don't want to be held accountable like a public body.
It could be as simple as they don’t yet have a firm answer. Until they do they won’t want to commit to anything.
For anybody else looking the plans are available on Cardiff City Council Planning site ref PRAP/22/00046/MJR
It could, but the original plan was for Crwys Rd to be open by 2023, obviously this isn't going to happen but they must have a schedule for construction. These jobs take a long time to plan and recruit for so a date must be pencilled in.
Unless you happen to be someone with a genuine business type interest (eg journalist, councillor, AM), organisations are unlikely to offer out information to any random member of the public who asks. For the simple reason that, particularly with social media, the dissemination of that info becomes uncontrolled.
There's nothing wrong with some transparency, if they gave more, people would ask less. Also much easier than dealing with a FOI request.
Not from your perspective maybe, but if you are managing the PR, media etc you would have a different view. It’s no accident why organisations of all types around the world adopt the PR practices they do.
Rumour has it that the new 756s may very well be used on the Taff branches before Rhymney so it could be for that possibly. Just a thought.
It specifies FLIRTs so it looks like they will definitely be used on the TAM lines ahead of the 398s. It makes sense as there are a lot of 756s with not very much to do and only a handful of 398s at Taff's Well.
Without wanting to go too far off topic, I wonder if the massive reductions to the Cardiff Bus network have meant that the normal ticket acceptance is no longer sufficient as a replacement, even with the rather low passenger numbers. Fairwater 66 ran hourly, now withdrawn. Waun Gron Park has lost nearly 2 buses per hour as well.
Very painfully, I was home in May and had a scout around, and the only thing I can see that's happened is that those concrete panels have been delivered.
Came here to say just that! And Cardiff Central staff being Cardiff Central staff, showed one of them the other day and he said “This says Cardiff Bay to Newport. This is neither.”
Sadly yet another ticket gate design which totally forgets about left-handed people even existing, and does not incorporate any cues in its design to help them (which includes me).
Came here to say just that! And Cardiff Central staff being Cardiff Central staff, showed one of them the other day and he said “This says Cardiff Bay to Newport. This is neither.”
Even more concrete panels have been delivered to Cardiff Bay in the last couple of days, and there also appears to have been a delivery of concrete sleepers as I could see them piled up. A lot of groundwork has gone on around the new Butetown station.
