Swansea is under huge development. The Kingsway, Mansel Street, Orchard Street and others are being worked on to make a one-way sytem. SA1 is a huge building site to bring more businesses to the area and to make the area more presentable. Is this all worth it? Will the city and the people benefit ffrom all this? And how much is it all costing?
2006-10-16 02:47:06 · 4 answers · asked by Aaron_J88 2 in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Swansea
I am prejudiced. In common with Dylan Thomas I remember Swansea as an "ugly, lovely town" and this new place will be unrecognisable. Still, an improvement is long overdue because looking at Swansea from above, it has for some time appeared as though a few giants had been having a game which involved flinging buildings hither and thither to amuse themselves, letting them remain arbitrarily on the map just where they happened to fall. If the improvements will stop the boy racers of Kingsway terrorising pedestrians at night; if the new super hospital will provide such great facilities to local people that they won't have to travel to places like London any more for treatment; if the arrival of new industries will provide jobs and an incentive to stay put rather than drift elsewhere, then these are surely changes to be welcomed? I am particularly thrilled to see that the sea link between Swansea and Ilfracombe is to be brought back in the form of a car ferry, although this appears to be incidental to the redevelopment which you are discussing. I hope that the benefits of what is happening can be shared by everyone. I hope that the new businesses don't push up the property prices so that housing becomes unaffordable. I'd like to think that something could be done to help pensioners travel affordably to this brave new world from outlying areas. The die is cast, the various projects are going ahead and all one can do (and I write from a safe distance of several thousand miles away) is hope that the gamble comes off.
2006-10-17 09:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can't see the development bringing in more people, especially as there are no buses from areas like the valleys, to bring people in to spend there money.
The fact that there are going to be no free parking spaces is going to course a lot of problems. After all whats the point of paying for parking in Swansea when you can go to Cardiff shopping instead.
Don't get me wrong i love Swansea and spent three fantastic years there studying for my degree, but i can't see that people are going pay any ware near £250,000 to buy a two bedroom flat in the Marina.
There just aren't the jobs there to entice people away from more up market places like Cardiff and ultimately London if your looking for the urban lifestyle.
2006-10-16 02:53:49 · answer #2 · answered by Heather 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It will make a big difference eventually.Any large scale modernisation programme is bound to be disruptive to people who come into contact with it on a regular basis.I suppose i am one of the lucky one`s,i rarely need to travel to the city centre so it doesn`t bother me too much.However i am still looking forward to having the roadworks removed etc. Hopefully it wont be too long !
2006-10-18 10:09:55 · answer #3 · answered by sweynseye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing short of a nuclear attack could improve Swansea. And even then, the people living there would be too high on smack to notice.
You Jack Bastards!!!!
In the Swansea slums,
They look in the dustbins for something to eat,
They find a dead rat and they think it's a treat,
In the Swansea slums.
2006-10-16 02:50:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋