Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 29 March 2017.
I’m particularly interested in cycle safety in my region. Can I draw your attention, Minister, to the active travel route map for Aberystwyth, which doesn’t include the Ystwyth trail? Now, the Ystwyth trail is the only traffic-free route from Aberystwyth out to suburbs like Rhydyfelin and Llanfarian. I know it well and it’s a very well-used route. However, it can’t be mapped, apparently, because the crossing across the trunk road in Trefechan isn’t up to standard. The trunk road is in your purview, but the local authority cannot map that and include it as an active travel or safe route because the crossing is deemed a ‘critical fail’, according to the Sustrans audit of the route. What action can you take, together with the local authority in Ceredigion, to try and improve that crossing so that we can include the Ystwyth trail, which has been constructed at some expense—including European money—in order to include it in our active travel so that it becomes more well-known and well-used in Aberystwyth and its environs?