Roads, Travel & Parking
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- Phase two of essential maintenance work to the A472 in Pontypool is due to begin this week...
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- A total of 39 roads were resurfaced last year as part of the first phase of the Better Roads programme, with an estimated 29 roads to be resurfaced for year two of the programme during 2026.
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- Phase one of the council's road resurfacing project, known as the Better Roads campaign, has now been completed...
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- Pupils from Blenheim Road and Coed Eva Primary School have been praised for promoting healthier lifestyles by walking or wheeling to school..
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- A section of the A472 in Pontypool will be closed overnight next month to carry out essential maintenance on the canal bridge.
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- Nearly 100 warning letters have been issued since the council's camera enforcement car began operating in the borough.
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- A new camera enforcement car will take to the streets to help improve road safety from next week.
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- The council is investing an additional £6.4m in improving local roads over the next five years.
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- New maps have been produced to encourage more pupils to walk, scoot or cycle to school.
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- Four new bike repair stations will be installed throughout the borough by the end of April.
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- A section of Hanbury Road in Pontypool Town Centre has reopened nearly a week ahead of schedule.
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- A new park and ride facility at Pontypool and New Inn Railway Station has opened today
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- The process of making temporary exemptions to the default 20mph limit in Torfaen permanent is underway.
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- From Monday 10 February, a section of Hanbury Road in Pontypool Town Centre will be closed in both directions for eight weeks, including weekends.
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- A section of Hanbury Road, in Pontypool Town Centre, will be closed in both directions for eight weeks from Monday February 10, including weekends.
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- The number of exceptions to the 20mph limit in built up areas in Torfaen could increase to 44 under revised proposals.
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- Remedial work to address historical issues with the platform at Pontypool and New Inn Railway Station has been completed.
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- Between Monday 21 October until Friday 29 November a section of St Davids Road, Cwmbran will be closed to carry out highway improvement works to the new Lidl Store. There will be alternate lane closures only.
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- Today, councillors approved plans to repair a section of the A472 where it crosses the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal have been approved...
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- Between Wednesday 03 April – Friday 05 April and Monday 15 April – Wednesday 17 April a section of Brangwyn Avenue, Llantarnam, will be closed to install a new zebra crossing on a raised platform.
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- We would like to inform residents that the necessary felling of diseased Ash trees, and other trees posing a risk to the highway along Foundry Road, Abersychan, have been successfully completed.
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- This week marks the start of the Big Walk and Wheel fortnight which aims to encourage school children to travel to school actively...
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