CARDIFF COUNCIL TO PROCEED WITH NEW BUS-STATION SCHEMES
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Plans Being Prepared in Connection with the G.W.R. Station Site SOME 'months ago The Commercial Motor published the fact that the Cardiff City Engineer had reported to the City Council that laud would become available adjoining the new GaW.R. central station which would permit the council demolishing certain " poorer " streets and making a square wherein could be constructed a large central station.
The City Council, on February 10th, decided to proceed with construction of the proposed bus station and terminus, and authorized preliminary steps to be taken. The engineer was instructed to prepare station plans. A member asked what the station was likely to cost the ratepayers and it was replied for the finance?."-committee that the scheme " would' pay for itself." It was necessary to proceed at once to deal with the G.W.R. regarding the level and front elevation of the new station, and details of the scheme would be announced later.
There are other South Walds busstation schemes in motion. Caerphilly Urban District Council is erecting a fully equipped passengers' • 'staffing
room at Cardiff' mind, near the railway station, and Abergavenny Urban District Council has a comprehensive scheme in band. In this scheme it 'is proposed to provide a station at Swan Meadow; to comprise, waiting and cloak rooms, with bus-traffic platforms and parking site, also a park for commercial and private motor traffic. It is esti
mated to yield the council some £200 per annum net profit. The plans are now awaiting the approval of the Ministry of Transport, which, some few days ago, informed the Abergavenny town clerk that examination of the details would be expedited. Some indication of the need for such a station at Abergavenny is found in the fact that the present Swan Meadow parking site is too small for the council, and another strip of the meadow has to be taken into the park.
Llanelly Corporation proposes at a later date, as part of a town-centre improvement scheme now in band, to erect a substantial station for the use of buses.