LINKING-UP MINING VALLEYS IN GLAMORGAN.
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The scheme for linking up the mining valleys of Glamorgan by means of short direct routes is to be proceeded with immediately. Government sanction has been"given to the scheme; and the Ministry of Transport has granted the Glamorgan County Council permission to accept a tender for the construction of the first section of a new thoroughfare from Cwmpare (Rhondda Valley) to Nantymoel, at a cost of £25,000.
The sum of £400,000 is involved in the completion of the undertaking, more than half of which is to he received by Way of a grant from the Ministry.
The scheme embraces the linking up of all the valleys by the construction of roads over an elevated tableland that is intersected by the deep and narrow coal-mining valleys of Rhondda, Ogmore, Gorw, tariff, Afon, Neath and Dulais. This means that the whole northern portion of the county will be served by a road running from east to west, with only small gradients.
In many places it means that heavy motor vehicles will for the first time be able to reach some of the valleys and thus open them up. In addition, travel facilities between north and south and between the mining valleys and the seaboard will be improved.
A feature of the scheme is that the cost will be kept within reasonable dimensions by the availability of ample supplies of roadstone in local quarries.