You are right there are too many MPs Dai, but too many councillors as well. And too much money has been wasted on road schemes such as the boulevard which stupidly still has traffic lights which means there has been no improvement at all in traffic flow, along Oystermouth road overhead pedestrian bridges were removed and in one particular place replaced with a traffic light controlled pedestrian crossing just 20 yards away from an existing T-Junction controlled set of traffic lights. That is criminally stupid.
Again on the traffic lights situation we have on the Kingsway is another needless road block for traffic flow, a one way system can and does work as I have seen it implemented well in other cities but none of those had effectively the same level of traffic jamming procedures in place, those other one way systems were much bigger in scale and the pedestrians were removed from the roads to allow full traffic flow. But now with plans to undo this one way system we can say it yet another waste of money.
What wouldn't be a waste of money would be see the one way system extended so the boulevard went only to the bridges towards Fabian Way as an exit, coming from Fabian Way a two lane one way to the Kings Way, where the Kings Way comes out by Tesco it goes down to Oystermouth road leading to the Mumbles. To get into the city from the Mumbles the route should end by Guildhall forcing traffic up a redeveloped St Helens way road system into the city.
All with no traffic lights and pedestrians forced up and over the road by use of pedestrian fence barriers at the curbs. It is then the drivers responsibility to read the road signs and get in lane to enter and exit this one way system, which as it constantly flows, cuts the time of travel hugely.
But I stress, Swansea is particularly poor at road planning but it also a wider UK problem with central government as you state being another driver in our problems. We have much to learn from other countries who are now mastering the use of one way systems, it's why Swansea adopted it but there mistake was keeping good old fashioned UK's calamitous love of traffic lights to stop the traffic moving and allowing pedestrians the chance to go across the road system instead of over and not disturbing it.
I went to that open building thing a few weeks back where you can see their plans and give ideas of our own, the whole concept of this I have written was like a alien language to them. There was even a model of the city where I tried to explain in Leymans, the two councillors were perplexed by the whole thing but the four business leaders who were self employed and SEVEN citizens also there gathered around, listened to me and actually tried to help explain my advice. They got it first time and I know they saw it too!! The envisioned it as I was explaining it on the model.
Our councillors are either inept, or too stupidly stubborn to accept they made a big mistake. Possibly both. I guess that is where the politics comes in
Again on the traffic lights situation we have on the Kingsway is another needless road block for traffic flow, a one way system can and does work as I have seen it implemented well in other cities but none of those had effectively the same level of traffic jamming procedures in place, those other one way systems were much bigger in scale and the pedestrians were removed from the roads to allow full traffic flow. But now with plans to undo this one way system we can say it yet another waste of money.
What wouldn't be a waste of money would be see the one way system extended so the boulevard went only to the bridges towards Fabian Way as an exit, coming from Fabian Way a two lane one way to the Kings Way, where the Kings Way comes out by Tesco it goes down to Oystermouth road leading to the Mumbles. To get into the city from the Mumbles the route should end by Guildhall forcing traffic up a redeveloped St Helens way road system into the city.
All with no traffic lights and pedestrians forced up and over the road by use of pedestrian fence barriers at the curbs. It is then the drivers responsibility to read the road signs and get in lane to enter and exit this one way system, which as it constantly flows, cuts the time of travel hugely.
But I stress, Swansea is particularly poor at road planning but it also a wider UK problem with central government as you state being another driver in our problems. We have much to learn from other countries who are now mastering the use of one way systems, it's why Swansea adopted it but there mistake was keeping good old fashioned UK's calamitous love of traffic lights to stop the traffic moving and allowing pedestrians the chance to go across the road system instead of over and not disturbing it.
I went to that open building thing a few weeks back where you can see their plans and give ideas of our own, the whole concept of this I have written was like a alien language to them. There was even a model of the city where I tried to explain in Leymans, the two councillors were perplexed by the whole thing but the four business leaders who were self employed and SEVEN citizens also there gathered around, listened to me and actually tried to help explain my advice. They got it first time and I know they saw it too!! The envisioned it as I was explaining it on the model.
Our councillors are either inept, or too stupidly stubborn to accept they made a big mistake. Possibly both. I guess that is where the politics comes in
