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bridge built for horse drawn vehicles in Mountain Ash
January 6, 2012 - 8:55pm
I see the big finances are being splashed out in Mountain Ash with improved traffic lights.
Not bad for a bridge that was designed for the horse and cart traffic.
Anyone seen the difference with the funding and building road improvements at Ystrad Mynach? They have a new hospital just like Mountain Ash but their local authority Caerphilly has moved on from roads and bridges built for horse drawn vehicles around their new hospital.
Keep voting Labour you know it makes sence.
http://www.aberdareonline.co.uk/content/improvement-works-begin-a4059-0
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Vote labour and the council
Vote labour and the council get a new teasmade and we get yellow lines round aberdare and incresed parking fee's.
Battenburg cake anyone????
Any improvement in the
Any improvement in the delays on that road are welcomed. Changing the zebra crossing to a set of lights will help as stopping for people to cross every 2 mins as it is doesnt help one bit
Who ever wrote the above
Who ever wrote the above link should start writing works of fiction, they have a very vivid imagination.
ONLY A SOUTHERN CROSS VALLEY LINK WILL HELP IMPROVE CONGESTION. THIS IS JUST A PLASTER OVER A CRACK SCHEME. IT WILL NOT WORK.
Bunch of Richard Craniums on this council that's for sure.
“Changing the zebra
“Changing the zebra crossing to a set of lights will help as stopping for people to cross every 2 mins as it is doesnt help one bit”
You are correct about a person crossing every 2 minutes that is evident on the Aberdare bypass pelican crossing with lines of traffic queuing in each direction daily with a pedestrian bridge built for purpose hardly used.
I can’t believe just how much money is wasted on potluck schemes no one in this council seems to look a great deal into the future.
The new roundabout at Home Bargains works fine fewer holdups with traffic moving better, new traffic lights in Llwydcoed, a potential traffic black spot in the future. Why didn’t the council construct a roundabout at this point there was plenty of room and the developer should have footed the bill.
Penywaun traffic lights why not a roundabout, there was masses of room to construct one again a roundabout would help traffic flows and cheaper in the long term.
Haven’t been using the A4059 Aberdare to Abercynon of late but I have been informed that there has been quite a bit of floodwater on this stretch of road in the past few weeks.
“Funding
4.29 The southern cross valley link scheme was allocated £90k for 2006/07 to enable the CPO to be published. The next programme of European funding will commence in January 2007 for the period to 2013 and work on the composition of that programme is underway. If the scheme is successful in gaining approval construction of the scheme could commence early 2008.”
Well there you go.
Well I gather the EU bid was
Well I gather the EU bid was turned down and the council didnt get the money - bloody madness when you see some of the crap things EU money funds.....
I hope the council will rebid if there is to be a 3rd round of EU funding for Wales from 2013
Not difficult to see why no
Not difficult to see why no funding comes to Cynon Valley.
Safe Labour seat no political party importance a guaranteed Labour vote MP AM need do nothing sit back and take the money.
Look where the Welsh European Funding Office is positioned, little wonder Merthyr has a good road system and Cynon Valley are left with improved traffic lights.
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Christine Chapman our Labour
Christine Chapman our Labour Assembly member was chair of Objective 1 committee responsible overseeing the £1.2bn.
How much was spent in Cynon Valley?
“New chair of Objective 1 committee determined to make Objective 1 a success
Thursday 26 October 2000
New chair of Objective 1 committee determined to make Objective 1 a success
The Objective 1 programme is a one-off chance to bring about fundamental change to the Welsh economy and we must ensure that it delivers this change successfully.
This was the message delivered by Christine Chapman, the newly-appointed Chair of the Objective 1 Monitoring Committee today (Friday, 27 October) as she outlined her commitment to making Objective 1 a success for Wales.
"I am very pleased to take up this key role on the Objective 1 committee and playing a crucial role in shaping the future of some of Wales’ most deprived areas.
"If we are to bring about the much-needed transformation of the Welsh economy it is essential that we drive forward high-quality projects which will have an impact and make a real difference. The Assembly can play an important role in providing leadership and a strong strategic direction to the Objective 1 programme and this will be one of my goals as chair of the committee."
Christine Chapman, who is the Assembly Member for the Cynon Valley, was formerly the Assembly’s Deputy Secretary for Education and Economic Development. In the past she has also held positions as Education and Business Partnership Co-ordinator and Director of Mid Glamorgan Careers.
The Objective 1 Committee will be responsible for implementing and overseeing the £1.2bn European Objective 1 programme in West Wales and the Valleys over the next seven years. Its membership is made up of people from the private, public and voluntary sectors in Wales. Christine Chapman will chair the committee for the first time at its next meeting in Swansea on 15 December.
"This week we have announced the first projects to receive Objective 1 funds which is great news and an important milestone which shows that good progress is now being made," said Christine Chapman.
"There have been some teething problems but this is only to be expected given that this is the first time Wales has received Objective 1 funding. It is only right that people throughout Wales should be able to express their views, but we must also recognise the need to look ahead and to work together constructively to make things happen. I am confident that by pulling together and by adopting a ‘Team Wales’ approach we will succeed in making this work for Wales.
"I will be taking an early opportunity to meet and speak to all those who have a part to play in Objective 1 - from the Welsh European Funding Office and members of the Monitoring Committee to experts throughout Wales who are experienced in administering European structural funds. Now is the time for action and I am determined to make a difference."
Cynon Valley has had
Cynon Valley has had millions from EU funding - didnt the work in Mountain Ash Town Centre come partly from the EU and the rest from RCT Council that was about £5 million, Aberdare is getting £7 million now isnt it?
Perthcelyn had a new school funded through Euro money and there are lots of other smaller projects, my point is there are lots of other things like the bid for the cross valley link that they should fund and they didnt.
If the Aberdare by-pass extension comes off in line with the heads of the valleys deulling then its good news for the valley - it just will we get our share of the EU cash.....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-16529952
Good example of RCT getting EU cash and Welsh Assembly funding, this is a £3 million project it seems
Goes against the idea RCT as a Labour area doesnt get investment as its safe Labour seats......
Plus Ponty and Aberdare are getting millions of investment - I'd like to know if there is some way of finding out just what EU funding has come in to the RCT area.......
“Good example of RCT
“Good example of RCT getting EU cash and Welsh Assembly funding, this is a £3 million project it seems”
It is a good example should one say better late than never? I wouldn’t go on about the Labour party being in control just take a look at the photographs and see what the public have had to put up with years of a Labour controlled local government decades of flooding
http://archive.rhondda-cynon-taf.gov.uk/treorchy/index.php?a=subjects&s=...
http://www.gtfm.co.uk/Flood7.jpg
http://www.gtfm.co.uk/Flood1.jpg
http://www.gtfm.co.uk/Flood12.jpg
What about the community of Ynysboeth in Cynon Valley has anything been done to prevent what happened in the BBC news report below reoccurring?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7601917.stm
Why spend £7.7m on the Aberdare Regeneration? What is the point of spending that amount of our cash on new stone paving, it was only a few years ago the council were taking up blue pennant paving slabs replacing them with brick paving.
It won’t belong before utility companies start digging up the £7.7m paving investment and we will be back to square one.
Well it’s only our money the council are wasting
Lewis, the footways were
Lewis, the footways were last done in Aberadre about 20 years ago I'm sure, they may be newish bricks but were uneven, places had sunk and didnt look very good.
I think the sections they have done so far look good - the issue of utilities digging up the town is a good point as they always sem to want to do work a few years after an area is done uo.
The flooding photos prove the point that the money is good news for that community, maybe it should have come sooner but I guess there is only ever so much money to go around
Just read your comment about
Just read your comment about the brick paving in Aberdare Town Centre. The old bricks were laid on sand with the result they sunk. Walking by Specsavers the other day I noticed workmen laying new brick paving ON sand. I took a good long look and no hard base is used. Just wait for a year and watch these go the same way.