Metro

I like the idea of sorting out Callaghan square, it's a place I tend to avoid when driving west-east, but I think closing top of Bute street is an error.

100% this. It would be interesting to know how much of the traffic realignment in actually required to run the new line and how much is just about traffic management. It dosn't make much sense in terms of hitting net zero to increase the length of car journeys and cause congestion.

Well, theres only about 500M of new on-street track so I would say that about 75% of this is "traffic management" and that is strongly influenced by an obvious desire to make it more difficult to travel by car within the city centre. I think this is a good thing - it SHOULD be more more difficult to take a car into the city centre. Or rather, I should be more costly to drive in the centre. That cost can come in the form of time/inconvenience or direct charges and I think I would prefer the latter.

Cardiff council have been toying with the idea of road user charging for a while but given how politically controversial this will be I don't think they are ready to grasp the nettle yet. They are probably also waiting to see which way the UK and Welsh governments go on this. So we keep getting traffic schemes that are ostensibly about improving active travel or public transport, but have a pretty obvious side-effect of making driving more inconvenient.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wale ... n-30050919

That is not ideal, seems like the WG aren't committed to improving Cardiff transport, with the Cardiff Parkway decision being sat on too.