Mr Blue Sky wrote:What struck me was the almost total absence of pedestrians in the area. I did see a man plodding through the mud on a roadside verge, in an Alan Partridge-like manner. If people in St Edeyrns want to use the facilities at the Pontprennau retail park or at Cardiff gate services they will have to drive - it isn't safe to walk or cycle.
Never thought I'd be defending Pontprennau here but I'm going to try - the reason you never see any pedestrians in the area is because there are footpaths away from the major roads (using old country lanes I believe) and up until recently there were no footpaths on the Pentwyn Link Road. So if you had somebody living down near the A48 interchange who wanted to get to Cardiff Gate Retail Park, they wouldn't walk along side the busy Link Road because they know about the routes through the housing estates behind.
It's the same for the business park, if you take a walk around it at lunch time (and I often do as I work here) there are literally hundreds of people walking, almost all to the retail park. But again, you wont see them along side the link road because there is a footpath between the business park and retail park away from the main roads.
The proposed layout for St Edeyrn's Village shows a number of footpaths linking into these existing footpaths, and a new series of pedestrian crossings have been built around the roundabout on the link road. There are also plans to extend the existing bus service in the area (currently terminates outside Asda) into St Edeyrn's.
I think, in fairness to Persimmon, they've not done too bad a job... Again, I've seen worse
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