Plans to scrap a regularly congested roundabout in Newport have been jointly unveiled by the Welsh Government, Newport City Council and Transport for Wales. As part of the plans which include changes to Newport railway station and Queensway, the Old Green roundabout in the heart of the city would be replaced by a new interchange.
A simulated video on the Transport for Wales website shows the new interchange planned outside Newport Castle. The roundabout is replaced with a traffic light operated system with multiple exits and “priority access for buses and simplified active travel routes which are convenient and attractive for all users”.
Council leader Jane Mudd said the changes, including better access to the city centre via wide cycle lanes on Queensway, would carry out objectives encouraged by the Lord Burns report by making people “less dependent on cars” and “delivering sustainable change”. The report by Lord Burns in 2020 recommended spending hundreds of millions on public transport in and around Newport to rid the city of endless congestion on the M4 after ministers scrapped plans for an M4 relief road in 2019.
