Transport Links in the Swansea Bay City Region

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport – in the Senedd at 2:10 pm on 6 June 2018.

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Photo of Ken Skates Ken Skates Labour 2:10, 6 June 2018

Well, can I thank Mike Hedges for his question? I'm pleased to say that huge progress has been made within the Swansea bay area in terms of enhancing the provision of public transport and improving the provision of roads for motorists, relieving congestion. We've asked Transport for Wales to develop a detailed traffic model for south-west Wales, which includes the Swansea bay area, and it's essential that we fully understand the problems that need to be resolved to ensure the best model is developed. We've provided £1.4 million for the Safe Routes in Communities programme, and almost £2 million from the local transport fund for active travel schemes in this financial year, and an additional £1 million has been allocated to the Swansea bay city region specifically for pre-works on active travel schemes, to develop a pipeline of active travel projects. Of course, the £60 million that has been made available could be utilised for some of those projects, and I'm also very pleased to be able to inform the Member today that we will be putting forward Landore as one of the possible options to be considered as part of the exercise of opening up stations.