<p>South Wales Metro </p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:53 pm on 22 November 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 1:53, 22 November 2016

I will pass that message on to the AM for Bridgend. [Laughter.] He is right; for Bridgend railway station, like so many others, it’s not practical for buses to go there and that’s part of the problem. Originally, there was a plan to put buses in the car park behind. The police objected and now the police have moved. So, there is an issue there. So, we have to look at new alternatives in terms of delivering a proper public transport hub, along the lines of Caerphilly, for example, where there’s a good example. In the future, rather than saying that we’re just going to live with the situation, where the main bus station and the main railway station are up—well, one is uphill from the other, and therefore inaccessible for people with mobility problems—new thinking will be needed as part of the metro project as to how we deliver those hubs in the future.