Pont Y Werin bridge opens (at last!)

Above is the picture of the scene from July 2009 – exactly ONE year ago to the day that it shouldve opened! All you can see is the trunk road across the River Ely which doesnt allow any pedestrian or safe cycle access between Cardiff Bay and Penarth. Hence a solution was required to allow […]

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WONGA-Win at the quiz at long last….(phew)

Well it was a long time coming but it was bound to happen sooner or later! Our ticket actually got pulled out for the Snowball question at The Romilly Quiz in Pontcanton. All four of us poised, awaiting the question from the Quizmaster. Over he walked to ask us the tv-related question, even better was […]

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Construction of Pont Y Werin bridge in Cardiff Bay

“It’s costing £160,000 per hour to hire the crane”, “It’s the world’s largest crane”, “The last piece of the bridge is being fitted by a smaller crane on Tuesday as it’s too expensive to use the large one” These were just some of the things that were being said as the third piece of the […]

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