Cardiff First Welsh Sustainable Travel Town

Cardiff First Welsh Sustainable Travel Town
Cardiff has been selected to become Wales' first "Sustainable Travel
Town" by the assembly government. The scheme worth UK £28.5 million aims to
provide free cycle hire, bus travel around the city centre, and improved bike and walking routes. The council hopes extend the project to other areas of Wales once an initial two-year plan is complete. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7936127.stm

I wonder where lorries in the park fits into a sustainable travel! Time for a new look at how the roads are laid out or more pedestrians will be injured or killed in Cardiff - who would risk cycling at present with the city a petrol head dream with petrol head clllrs who park right outside the city hall!

Time for Cardiff to go green!

From Tuesday the South Wales Echo will feature two pages of Go Green news and features every week, and its sister papers The Western Mail and the Celtic weekly newspapers will also have regular features.There will also be pull-out supplements and a section on our website, www.walesonline.co.uk

Go Green team battles for a brighter future Apr 24 2009

SUPPORTERS of the Echo’s Go Green initiative turned out in force to help Cardiff council bring a splash of colour to one of the city’s most popular parks. Read Lets hope this isnt green wash!

Perhaps the Echo will support a campaign to make Cardiff greener and protest about the rise in bus fares from £1.20 to £1.50 overnight! This wont encourage people who use cars most often for short journeys to use the bus!

The parks department should use their vehicles less and Cllrs shouldn't park in front of the city
Hall. Even worse build on our green spaces!

Bute park news

http://no2lorriesinbutepark.blogspot.com/ -

Council leader Rodney Berman is und er fire Apr 24 2009

PUBLIC anger at Cardiff’s schools reorganisation and council proposals to build on green spaces across the city erupted in the face of councillors yesterday. Read

Look what has happened to our beautiful park

WalesOnline - ‎Apr 23, 2009‎

CAMPAIGNERS against further development within Bute Park have accused Cardiff Council of planning to erect a horticultural building that will look like a ...

Libs Climate Change Brief

Nick Clegg has ousted Steve Webb from his post as the Liberal Democrats' energy and climate change spokesman, in a reshuffle aimed at sharpening the party's performance. The climate change brief, an important one in a party with strong environmental credentials, was handed to Simon Hughes, the former Liberal Democrat president.

Independent 9th Jan 2009

Grid lock Cardiff

Clodien Avenue parking - Lib Dems seek answers to congestion crisis - you can say that again as this city is in crisis - gridlocked at rush hour and speeding traffic and roads you can't cross the rest of the time.

Cllr. Ed Bridges wants the council to make it harder for Allensbank House residents to park illegally on Clodien Ave. He is quite right - get on with it. Too many
people flaunt parking regulatins in Cardiff. I recall the lib dems promise to introduce more parking wardens. Give them a ticket ...

Lib Dems U turn for aggressive Car lobby

Lib Dems do a U turn

Listening to residents’ views on parking: Cllr. Ed Bridges and Cllr. Cathy Pearcy want a workable solution to Gabalfa’s parking congestion problems.
The only working solution is CPZs. Have you listened to the elderly, disabled people, pedestrains and others who don't get as much coverage in the newspapers?

What other options to address parking congestion would be acceptable to the pro car anacharists lobby? None, I'll bet.

The original consultation showed a majority of residents backed the scheme. How is this no longer the case?
Feet first ANOTHER WAY is POSSIBLE
One man Michael Loveday, dedication to ridding the streets of cars and handing power back to pedestrians appears to be working wonders
Chris Arnot Wednesday March 14, 2007 The Guardian

Plans for Cardiff council to take over enforcement of parking controls from the police must carry on if the capital is to kept moving. That is the claim of Cardiff Bus' managing director David Brown recently. Mr Brown believes the abandonment of controlled parking zones should not stop a city-wide 'decriminalised' scheme because it could lead to anarchy as motorists continue to ignore traffic regulations.
Mr Brown went on: 'I don't think the benefits of CPZs were fully understood. That decision has now been taken so we have to move on. 'But there is still clearly unanimous support for enforcement of parking controls and tackling illegal parking.
'That will benefit residents but also the bus company because discourteous drivers parking at junctions or on double yellow lines do slow buses through traffic.


See also Living Streets
Manual for Streets article speaks up for pedestrians

Living Streets on the Manual for Streets is launched, Tom Franklin, Chief Executive of Living Streets, has written a feature for Surveyor magazine on the positive implications of the Manual, and where more could be done.

Guiding Steps to free up the streets
'For decades, our streets have been designed around the needs of cars rather than people. But over the past few years, the excuses for doing so have been running low. Local authorities have come to see the benefits of more people-friendly streets - for communities, the environment and the local economy.'