A NEW RAILWAY STATION FOR CAERLEON

Plaid Cymru, Newport East Westminster candidate Jonathan T Clark has called for a new railway station to serve Caerleon and Ponthir to be added to the original Burns Commission recommendations, which we are still waiting for,  as a matter of urgency.  

 

Jonathan T Clark, Plaid Cymru Newport East Westminster candidate said:

 

“I like many people in Newport, welcomed the commitment, a few years ago, to build new railway stations at Tredegar Park, Somerton, Llanwern, and Magor. We need ground broken sooner rather than later to bring the new railway stations into being, to provide alternative means of getting around our city and elsewhere. The new stations are an absolute necessity, but I have serious concerns that no railway station to serve Caerleon / Ponthir has been included, this would a real asset to both communities.”

 

Jonathan concluded:

 

“The absence may show an alarming lack of understanding of local transport issues, or to literal linear focus on the problems of the M4 or it could be simply a glaring oversight. In this case it would ensure that the residents of Caerleon / Ponthir have little choice but to drive to Newport, Cwmbran and beyond even to reach another railway station. The lack of a proposed railway station to serve the communities of Caerleon / Ponthir needs to be revisited as a matter of urgency if the Labour in Wales government are serious about providing decent integrated public transport for all parts of Newport and cutting congestion on the M4 and around our city.” 

 

DIWEDD / ENDS

 

Plaid Cymru and the SE Wales Metro

 

Plaid Cymru in Newport and Monmouthshire has long called for the existing railway stations to be significantly upgraded as part of the process of creating a functioning South Wales metro.  Plaid broadly welcomed the report of the South East Wales Transport Commission which has recommend ways to reduce congestion on the M4 motorway without building a new relief road around Newport.  Plaid has called greater investment in public transport, with a much better integration and coordination of rail and bus networks and integrated tickets across all services – with the emphasis that it is needed sooner rather than later.