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I have just been back to Swansea after being away for five years. Let's start with the bad, the Kingsway is a hot mess, when we left it had been converted for the bendy bus and after a couple of deaths it is being changed again, well what a waste of money, good grief it wouldn't have taken the foresight of Nostradamus to have predicted the problems that system would have caused. Secondly the amount of people begging and sleeping on the pavement. The good, well the people are still the salt of earth and atmosphere of the city is of a modern confident metropolis. When we left the city, we felt sad that we were leaving a place that we used to call home and also still Swansea is still a city led by incompetent idiots in the council and not by visionary leaders.
Unfortunately we can have all the vision and plans in life, but it has to be funded. That is then where the problems start. As I've got older it's the small villages of gower I feel closest to. But for the youngsters they love wind st and we have more quality eateries than ever. Would love to see sa1 and.marina thrive and look the part. At the moment it still is a work in progress and needs.a."cat's lick"
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Impressions of Swansea on 12:52 - Jun 2 with 3937 views
Swansea will reclaim the status it had in the 60s. Forgotten town on the edge of Britain. After Brexit we will once again be at the mercy of the Tories in Westminster and basically told to sod off. There will be no where to go to gain funding for projects. I know many didn't want the barrage but I feel it would have got funding if it had been proposed for Cardiff or anywhere in England. Stopping the electrification of the Paddington rail service at Cardiff will also adversely affect the region. And, if Trump's tantrum over steel lasts more than a couple of weeks another 40,000 could be without work. I don't often go into town but was there last Saturday and the centre was one step from having tumble weed blowing down the middle of the road. It really saddens me.
Impressions of Swansea on 12:05 - Jun 2 by dickythorpe
Unfortunately we can have all the vision and plans in life, but it has to be funded. That is then where the problems start. As I've got older it's the small villages of gower I feel closest to. But for the youngsters they love wind st and we have more quality eateries than ever. Would love to see sa1 and.marina thrive and look the part. At the moment it still is a work in progress and needs.a."cat's lick"
WAG haven't got the lock gates built for a new marina in SA1 because they say it's not a priority yet everything in Cardiff is a priority
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Impressions of Swansea on 14:07 - Jun 2 with 3847 views
Impressions of Swansea on 12:52 - Jun 2 by Badlands
Swansea will reclaim the status it had in the 60s. Forgotten town on the edge of Britain. After Brexit we will once again be at the mercy of the Tories in Westminster and basically told to sod off. There will be no where to go to gain funding for projects. I know many didn't want the barrage but I feel it would have got funding if it had been proposed for Cardiff or anywhere in England. Stopping the electrification of the Paddington rail service at Cardiff will also adversely affect the region. And, if Trump's tantrum over steel lasts more than a couple of weeks another 40,000 could be without work. I don't often go into town but was there last Saturday and the centre was one step from having tumble weed blowing down the middle of the road. It really saddens me.
You can blame every political party for the demise of swansea. They were all complicit in the wda funding of Cardiff to the detriment of swansea ðŸ˜
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Impressions of Swansea on 15:58 - Jun 2 with 3650 views
What needs to happen is for people to accomplish that the lovely Gower is no compensation for the destruction of the city of Swansea.
Anyone can look en to the late sixties when traffic and pedestrians mixed in the central streets and the place fizzed with life . To see the Kingsway dug up as it is just depresses.
Traffic seems impossible in some areas certainly not easy to get about quickly which is important on cities .
This is a regular theme and exiles retraining to the city after many years are shocked at its state .
A sunrise over Kilvey Hill last week at 4 am was very evocative for me; the good bad and ugly of Swansea surveyed in 270 degree angle showing former industrial areas, far away hills ,coastline and the rickety ramshackle loveliness of the houses on the hills of Swansea . What was lost should in some way be compensated for and its not been the case.
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Impressions of Swansea on 16:51 - Jun 2 with 3549 views
What needs to happen is for people to accomplish that the lovely Gower is no compensation for the destruction of the city of Swansea.
Anyone can look en to the late sixties when traffic and pedestrians mixed in the central streets and the place fizzed with life . To see the Kingsway dug up as it is just depresses.
Traffic seems impossible in some areas certainly not easy to get about quickly which is important on cities .
This is a regular theme and exiles retraining to the city after many years are shocked at its state .
A sunrise over Kilvey Hill last week at 4 am was very evocative for me; the good bad and ugly of Swansea surveyed in 270 degree angle showing former industrial areas, far away hills ,coastline and the rickety ramshackle loveliness of the houses on the hills of Swansea . What was lost should in some way be compensated for and its not been the case.
What needs to happen is for people to accomplish that the lovely Gower is no compensation for the destruction of the city of Swansea.
Anyone can look en to the late sixties when traffic and pedestrians mixed in the central streets and the place fizzed with life . To see the Kingsway dug up as it is just depresses.
Traffic seems impossible in some areas certainly not easy to get about quickly which is important on cities .
This is a regular theme and exiles retraining to the city after many years are shocked at its state .
A sunrise over Kilvey Hill last week at 4 am was very evocative for me; the good bad and ugly of Swansea surveyed in 270 degree angle showing former industrial areas, far away hills ,coastline and the rickety ramshackle loveliness of the houses on the hills of Swansea . What was lost should in some way be compensated for and its not been the case.
To compare traffic from the late 60s to 2018, some 60 years later is a nonsense.
As Dara O Briain said, "Nostalgia is heroin for old people".
POSTER OF THE YEAR 2013.
PROUD RECIPIENT OF THE SECOND PLANET SWANS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
Very proud to be voted Planet Swans Poster of the Year 2017 by my fellow posters. Especially on a site that nearly had 20 million impressions last year.
Impressions of Swansea on 17:14 - Jun 2 by Jackfath
To compare traffic from the late 60s to 2018, some 60 years later is a nonsense.
As Dara O Briain said, "Nostalgia is heroin for old people".
Absolutely there has been a huge increase in the use of cars since Moonie's time here. Most, I would suspect all, cities have problem with traffic. Cardiff and Bath certainly do and it is worse than Swansea. I worked in Birmingham city centre over 15 years ago. Of the 17 people working in the office only 1 came in by car and she had a disabled parking space. The rest used public transport due to huge cost of and difficulty parking there.
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Impressions of Swansea on 18:12 - Jun 2 with 3367 views
Impressions of Swansea on 17:53 - Jun 2 by exhmrc1
Absolutely there has been a huge increase in the use of cars since Moonie's time here. Most, I would suspect all, cities have problem with traffic. Cardiff and Bath certainly do and it is worse than Swansea. I worked in Birmingham city centre over 15 years ago. Of the 17 people working in the office only 1 came in by car and she had a disabled parking space. The rest used public transport due to huge cost of and difficulty parking there.
Of course they do, but it doesn't fit his agenda.
POSTER OF THE YEAR 2013.
PROUD RECIPIENT OF THE SECOND PLANET SWANS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD.
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