Active Travel

CYCLE PATH UPGRADE: Popular Dunvant to Gowerton route to get £500k revamp

The 1.75km between the two villages is next in line for widening after the Blackpill to Dunvant stretch. Sections will…

MAESTEG: First look at the £270,000 concrete skatepark for the Welfare Park, and riders have a fortnight to change it

Maverick Skateparks, the firm behind the Mumbles seafront park and this year's Brackla build, has published a 34.5m by 15m…

SWANSEA: Regional skatepark hunt ‘a significant issue’ as two pumptracks put on hold

The Elba BMX park is out to tender and four more sites are queued, but the council's own report says…

FREE BIKE FIXING: Lottery-funded workshops head for schools and clubs across South West Wales

A Swansea trainer is taking work stands and toolkits into schools, community centres and club rooms across five areas, teaching…

LLANELLI: Safer walk to school promised as missing pavement gets filled in from Monday

Two weeks of work and temporary lights at the Iscoed Road and Denham Avenue junction will turn a grass verge…

VICTORIA PARK: ‘The jewel in the crown’ — Swansea skaters give their verdict on the new £3m plaza

The new street-plaza skate park at Victoria Park has quickly become a hub for the city's riders. Lifelong skateboarders say…

NEATH PORT TALBOT: Safer routes to schools, stations and parks — the walking and cycling plans for your area

From a safer walk to a Seven Sisters primary school to a car-free path along the Swansea Canal, Neath Port…

SWANSEA: Three more skateparks open as £3m wheeled sports drive rolls on

Riders are already trying out the new and upgraded parks at Victoria Park, Townhill and Penlan — with a string…

CASWELL: 94 drivers ticketed in bank holiday ‘chaos’ — now tow-aways could be on the table

Drivers who park on yellow lines on the roads out of Caswell Bay could face being towed away in future…

GOWER: The former journalist who took on the lorries and machinery to save the family farm business

When ill health forced her husband to step back from the farm diversification business he had founded, former journalist Louisa…