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Roads, Travel & Parking
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- Three primary schools have agreed to sign up to a national programme aimed at getting school children to regularly walk, cycle or scoot to school.
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- A project to transform Pontypool and New Inn Railway Station has reached an important construction milestone.
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- Work to establish 80 new trees and more than 4,500 hedging plants in Pontypool Park will begin this week.
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- Cabinet members have approved Torfaen Council's plans for the roll out of new 20mph legislation later this year.
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- Five temporary road closures will be in place over the next few weeks to allow for the safe removal of diseased trees along main road corridors in Torfaen...
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- Highways maintenance teams are checking gullies and drains as part of the Council's winter preparedness plan...
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- Work to improve Pontypool and New Inn Railway Station and create an integrated park and ride facility is due to begin next week.
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- As part of the Council's work around Active Travel, we want to make it easier and safer for pedestrians and cyclists to cross Cwmbran Drive near four of the busiest roundabouts, and we need your views for potential new road crossings...
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- Ponthir Sports and Community Club are holding a firework display on the 5th November. The show starts at 7pm with the evening starting 6pm...
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- Every year the council provides a highways winter service to keep the borough moving....
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- The footbridge which crosses the Afon Lwyd at Woodland Road Sport and Social Centre is due to be resurfaced next week..
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- Currently there is a national shortage of new LED lanterns, which is leading to a backlog in repairing outages in the borough. There is a shortage of parts which make up the LED lanterns, and there is also issues with shipping and transport....
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- Torfaen Council has received notification that drivers for the largest bus operator in the UK will strike for three weeks due to a dispute over pay...
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- The Council are considering reopening or permanently closing a footpath which lies between 68 Thornhill Road and Merthyr Mawr, Thornhill Road, Upper Cwmbran, and we need residents to help us decide what happens...
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- Parents and carers who drive their children to school will be given road safety advice at the school gates this term....
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- This summer, some people may be considering purchasing an e-scooter, which have become an increasingly common sight as people are still looking at alternatives to public transport or a way to reduce car use...
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- Welsh Government want to make our streets safer for everyone...
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- Around 1000 primary school children have been learning about road safety, dangers of grass fires, and food hygiene as part of their preparations for secondary school...
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- An emergency road closure on Commercial Street, Pontypool will remain in place into next week to undertake emergency repairs to collapsed sewerage pipes
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- The council is putting an emergency road closure on Commercial Street, Pontypool from 7am tomorrow morning (9th of June)
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- During Global Road Safety Week (17-23 May), the council worked in partnership with Gwent Police, and South Wales Fire and Rescue, to run Operation Option sessions...
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- Residents in Torfaen are being asked to help improve walking and cycling routes for everyday journeys around Torfaen.
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- Weather permitting, the Council's grass cutting service which covers the borough is to restart next week...
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- Sixty-two new dual electric vehicle 22kw fast charging units have been installed at thirty-four sites across Gwent...
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- Cwmbran is the busiest sub-regional town centre in South East Wales and attracts around 15 million visitors a year. Cwmbran town centre provides a focal point for the surrounding valleys communities and acts as a 'strategic hub' for retail, employment, services, leisure and cultural activities...
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- Whilst Wales is in Level 4 alert restrictions (Covid-19), the council is continuing to provide a winter service for those with an essential need to travel...
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- Work is now complete on 10 new dual electric vehicle-charging points in Torfaen.In partnership with other local authorities in Gwent, the Council was awarded a share of £459,000 funding from the UK Government's Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), to start to develop the infrastructure for the vehicles of the future.
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