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Port Talbot to Cwmafan and Afan Forest Park
Port Talbot – New foot and cycle paths to Cwmafan and Afan Forest Park
The Connect2 project aims to create safe, attractive footpaths and cycle pathsbetween Port Talbot, Cwmafan, Pontrhydyfen and the popular Afan Forest Park, connecting local people to their shops, schools, work and green spaces. The roads between Pontrhydyfen, Cwmafan and Port Talbot are busy, narrow and unpleasant for walking and cycling. We plan to create a network of paths and bridges away from the traffic to make it easier for local people to travel between these places by foot or bike.The paths will continue to Afan Forest Park and beyond and will also connect people to local facilities in the town and to the sea front.
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11.12.2008
Port Talbot’s dedicated walking and cycling network – a step closer
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Port Talbot – cynllun llwybr troed a beiciau newydd I Gwmafan a Pharc Coedwig Afan
Nod prosiect Connect2 yw creu llwybrautroed a llwybrau beicio diogel ac atyniadol rhwng Port Talbot, Cwmafan a Phont-rhyd-y-fen a'r Parc Coedwig Afan poblogaidd gan gysylltu pobl leol â'u siopau, eu hysgolion, eu gwaith a'u gofodau gwyrdd. Mae'r ffyrdd rhwng Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Cwmafan a Phort Talbot yn brysur, yn gul a diflas ar gyfer cerdded a beicio. Bwriadwn greu rhwydwaith o lwybrau a phontydd i ffwrdd o'r traffig er mwyn ei gwneud hi'n haws i bobl leol deithio rhwng y lleoedd hyn ar droed neu ar gefn beic. Bydd y llwybrau yn parhau i Barc Coedwig Afan a thu hwnt a byddant hefyd yn cysylltu pobl â'u cyfleusterau lleol yn y dref ac â glan y môr.
How will the local community benefit?
As well as making a resource for everyday journeys, particularly from Cwmafan to Port Talbot, this proposal will enable visitors to the Forest Park to start from Port Talbot town centre, and perhaps just as interestingly from the main railway station which could support a flourishing mountain bike hire centre.Case studies
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Connect2 Champion
"This is a great honour; I love the thought of becoming part of the landscape alongside Dick Wagstaff and the great Richard Burton. I'm hoping that my sculpture might be able to persuade Burton's sculpture to quote some poetry of an evening, or at least a bit of War of the Worlds." Rob Brydon
"Making it easy for millions of people to change their world by walking and cycling to the local places they want to go"
