EASIER ACCESS TO SWANSEA • DOCKS
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Tiwo new roads will reduce, by half, I the present 12-mile journey from Briton Ferry to Swansea. One is the new Jersey Marine Road, which is now nearing completion, leading direct to Swansea Docks. The other is a new trunk road from Briton Ferry to Earlswood, connecting with the Jersey Marine Road.
Work on the new Briton FerryEarlswood highway will be put in hand almost immediately and will cost over £1,000,000. Before the war, 6,600 vehicles (16,000 tons) a day used the roads in the neighbourhood of Neath. As a result of industrial expansion, the figure is probably now much greater.
The new road will cross the Western Region main and branch railway lines. and continue over the Briton Ferry Dock by means of an 11-span viaduct 970 ft. long. It will also be carried by a 16-span viaduct, 1.610 ft. .long. over the Jersey Canal and the River Neath. The work will take about 21 years.
The British Road Federation points out that this is only one link in the new road chain urgently needed to join South Wales with London and the Midlands. "The tortuous routes which industrial traffic now has to follow will dissipate the real value of the Meath Road until the Severn Bridge is in use," says the B.R.F.