Connect2 Project

Clydach to Glais with Sustrans’ Connect2

Clydach Development Trust, Glais Development Trust and the sustainable transport charity Sustrans are developing a network of traffic-free paths to connect Clydach to Glais, Pontardawe, Morriston and Craig Cefn Parc for everyday journeys by people pushing prams, using wheelchairs or riding bikes.

Within Clydach the canal path and its bridge will be repaired and refurbished, and the route through the depot will be reclaimed, offering quick convenient and tranquil routes away from the main road linking to the Forge Fach Community Centre, the High Street, Vale Inco Mond and St Joseph’s Primary School.

The route will connect to Glais away from the A4067 over the disused railway bridge above the River Tawe, beside Vardre RFC and then provide a circular route to Glais joining the Garth Road.

The route will also link into the existing National Cycle Network to Morriston and Swansea and improve the canal towpath link to Pontardawe.

Funded by:

• Big Lottery Fund following the biggest ever televised vote in December 2007 when Sustrans’ Connect2 won £50 million for 79 walking and cycling schemes across the UK
• European Convergence Funding for Valley Cycle Network
• Local organisations such as Swansea Canal Society and Vale Inco

Find out more:

call: Forge Fach Resource Centre: 01792 845 566

       or Sustrans: 01792 454 491

Who are Sustrans?

Sustrans is the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity. They’re the charity behind the National Cycle Network, Safe Routes to Schools, Bike It and TravelSmart, all projects that are changing our world one mile at a time. Find out more at www.sustrans.org.uk

What’s Sustrans’ Connect2?

Sustrans’ Connect2 will revitalise walking and cycling in 79 communities across the UK by creating new routes for the local journeys we all make every day.

Crossings and bridges will be created over busy roads, railway lines and rivers, linking into new networks of local paths to get you to where you want to go by foot or bike.

Connect2 will make it possible for you to travel to the shops, school, work, the park or to see family and friends under your own stream, benefiting both your health and our environment.

In December 2007 this ambitious UK-wide project won the public vote in the Big Lottery Fund’s: The People’s £50 Million contest means that Connect2 schemes to transform local travel in communities from Ballymoney to Bradford, Cardiff to Carlisle and London Paddington to Perth will now go ahead.

What’s happening next?

Sustrans and Forge Fach Community Resource Centre will be hosting a series of consultations in Glais and Clydach in Winter 09 - Spring 10 to submit a planning application. It is anticipated the route will open in 2012.

Find out more at www.sustransconnect2.org.uk