Integrated Transport for Cardiff

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 1:37 pm on 2 May 2018.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 1:37, 2 May 2018

It's good to know that the resources of the public and private are being combined, but I have a query really as to why, when we've had so much high-class development on the Central Square site, which is the site of the former bus station, it hasn't been possible to fund the bus station out of the section 106 delivery mechanisms that the council will have levered out of private developers who have benefited from being on Central Square, and why it's needed the Welsh Government to intervene with this metro delivery partnership. The buses, in the absence at the moment of trams, light rail and increased capacity on the suburban railways, are the way in which the majority of people have to get around. Being unable to understand where to get the bus to particular locations, as at the moment, is really deterring people from using buses, which, obviously, we want them to do. So, I'd be grateful if you were able to give me a date for when the bus station is going to be reopened, because it has been at least 10 years' campaigning, and that's what my constituents want to hear.