Why Is Cardiff's Road Building Project Still Not Finished After 70 Years?

It’s not unusual…for a road project to be cancelled.

It only takes one broken down vehicle or (yet another) accident on the Link Road (A4232) or Rover Way and the whole of Cardiff and the rest of South Wales grinds to a standstill. Thanks for the video Jon, enjoyed it muchly. 👍👍

So they stopped building roads to help the environment by causing massive traffic jams.... great logic right there!

They’re asking cyclists in Wales to keep a 1.5 metre gap from cars when they overtake them now in the new speed limit zones

I wasn't expecting another Cardiff video so soon! It is absolutely crazy we have 90% of the circle complete, and even crazier, the bit that is missing is going through an industrial area.

They drive at 20mph everywhere in Wales now - no need for speedier road upgrades ❤

The older I get the more I realise people in positions of responsibility (like building roads), are just winging it 🤭 as to how it'll turn out. Great channel 👍

lol spat my tea out at "council urgency - 10 years later" :)

A video on payday, well done there! Just watched the B1M on the Messina Strait bridge. Clearly the Italian politicians look to Cardiff Council for strategic inactivity inspiration.

I still rate the Glasgow M8 ski ramps as the best abandoned slips roads in the UK. And yes I actually wrote this. I need to go out..

Welcome to my home town! Been wondering on a weekly basis when you would cover this. This is the best video I've ever seen about anything

Nice to see you covering roads down our neck of the woods 😊😊 I remember the cutting of the A4232 north of Leckwith. A video series on the length of the A48 would be cool. A series called "Great Welsh Roads" did this years back. Theres a few old A48 cafes from th(e days where cars were slower and M4 didnt go past Port Talbot) here n there, not cafes any more.

Wahey, you finally reached my home town. I could type a lot. In fairness, the connection to Ocean Way has done some good for traffic, although as a dual carriageway it is rather overbuilt. All the traffic that was smushed into Rover Way eastbound also used to be smushed onto the A4234 Central Link along with said link being the main route for shoppers, punters at the Cardiff Arena and some traffic for the Stadium. They then had to proceed along Fithamon Avenue and Newport Road or back down Ocean Way to the docks. Back in those days the traffic on that east side of the city centre was horrendous. Still, not building the flyover or even leaving room for one was a great shame and seems a little too much like vandalism.

Great stuff- this is a fascinating "not quite" road. The Rover Way section is literally bonkers. It's like a main road in Mexico or something. It is so obvious that it is a temporary fudge that has been in place for 50 years.

I spent many holidays with my grandparents, who lived in Penarth since the mid 1980's. Through all those years until 2019, we saw the building of the A4232 through its stages and the grangetown bridge hanging incomplete over the road Cardiff centre to Penarth, then the road just end for years until the next link (bridge over the bay and tunnel) was built. Plus the new Severn Bridge and the link roads to Penarth and the bay / barrage. As a child it was exciting to see how much was being built and all the new changes.

As someone who commutes to Cardiff, having to deal with Rover Way is god damn awful at the best of times and an absolute nightmare that I will do anything to get around

Wonderful, as ever. So the plan changed. “It’s not unusual”.

that outro gave me strong top gear vibes when james played the keyboard

C83 near Solas in the Western Isles anyone? Keep up the good work, plenty more roads to go!

Dubai was built in less then 50 years, we can barely build a bypass 🤣