Popular Swansea visitor destination gets a new road

The well-worn section of road stretching through Mumbles is being resurfaced to provide many more years of welcome for residents and visitors.

Work has already begun on the section of Mumbles Road (from the junction with Newton Road) with nearly 400 metres of fresh tarmac being laid along its length.

The major highway improvements are part of Swansea Council's efforts to upgrade sections of the city's road network.

During the Autumn, motorists have already benefitted from almost three kilometres of new road surfaces along Pentregethin Road in Cwmbwrla, Castle Street in Loughor, Pentre Road in Pontarddulais and Coalbrook Road - Grovesend.

A further 2.5 kilometres of new road will be laid between now and February 2023 with resurfacing plans along Mumbles Road, Birchgrove Road and Carmarthen Road.

The planned works are part of the Council's agreed £6.4million investment in highway infrastructure for 2022/23.

Andrew Stevens, Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure, said: "Mumbles Road is a main road through Swansea into the village of Mumbles and sees huge volumes of traffic each day. The route has been identified as one that now needs a major upgrade to prolong its lifespan and make it easy for people to travel the route.

"Our Highways Maintenance Teams have been extremely busy in the last few months tackling other routes that have also been identified as needing major repairs.

"This is a significant investment by the Council and will continue throughout the rest of 2022 and into the new year.

"Fortunately we have been able to plan the works during evenings to cut down on disruption for the travelling public."

The latest works is being completed alongside the Council's ongoing PATCH road repair scheme which kicked off in the Summer with every ward in the city being visited by a maintenance crew who will tackle some of the worst road defects across Swansea.

The PATCH scheme will run until April 2023 and gives the Council the opportunity to complete smaller repairs where major planned maintenance is not required.

Cllr Stevens added: "The successful and long-running PATCH initiative complements our resurfacing plans by tackling smaller defects. It operates on a rota-basis with teams visiting every ward in the city throughout the life of the project.

"I'm confident residents and motorists are seeing improvements in the city in terms of our efforts to keep our roads to a high standards."