“No need for extra bus lanes etc. The easiest way to increase bus times is to put conductors back on them. This will enable the drivers to consentrate on driving instead of issuing tickets to passengers who rarely have the money ready and hold up the service. How many times have you been on a bus when the passengers don't have correct money or give the driver a £20 note. I know it is mostly car drivers that are creating about the bendy bus and bus lanes. Bus passengers can also do there bit to help the drivers keep on time and make a stressful job a little less stressful. So have your tickets/passes or correct money ready when you get on the bus. If the bus is late due to traffic, accidents or roadworks, dont tell the driver he/she is late as they already know and you are making him/her more late by delaying getting seated.
Its not only the traffic that delays the bus, a lot of passengers are to blame for delays too.”

“I hope the councils efforts to revamp traffic hot spots is better than the mess they made at the junction of Dillwyn St and Oystermouth Rd with the addition of the bendy bus lane. Since the addition of this bendy bus lane accross to the County Hall, traffic now backs up as far as Port Tennant coming into Swansea and back as far as St Helens from the Mumbles side. Any commuter who travels regularly on this road will tell you that they've made a shambles of the traffic light sequence. As Carol from Whitland said the Kingsway is a disaster and let's be honest when you look at the traffic manangement schemes these so called experts have come up with over the years:- Blocking off College St and then reopening, one way system in Woodfield St Morriston, blocking off Princess dual carriage way and then knocking houses down to build a replacement dual carriageway on Dillwyn St. I don't have much faith in what the future holds especially if the best Mr Sheel can come up with is 'make it safer for everyone using what are the busiest streets in the city'. We've already got the safest streets as we all on stop. 5 year plan, I don't think they've got a 5 minute plan! Last word -I bet the people designing this traffic flow system all live in Cardiff really!”

“Thank you Gareth. I'll take a look at Llanelli. It used to be a place I loved to shop in. You'll certainly see me spending my Christmas money there!”

“It really isn't cheaper to catch the bus than drive to work. Recently I visited Edinburgh where buses are £1 for a day ticket for an adult. If buses were £1 a day return I am sure you would see a lot more people using it than there are currently. They need to lower prices of buses or parking because £5 a day to park in the centre of town is obscene.”

“Never mind Cardiff. Have you visited Llanelli recently. Parc Trostre and the town centre can knock spots off anything that Swansea has to offer. While the Jacks have been doing all the talking the Turks have been getting it sorted. I know where I will be doing my Christmas shopping and it won't involve dodging bendy buses or other silly schemes.”

“Why on earth Swansea Council are considering "bendy buses" is a mystery. It is comon knowledge that bendy buses are not working in London and have proven an expensive flop including lots of acidents involving cyclists and pedestrians. They are generally viewed as unsafe in addition to which they are notorious for pasengers managing to get on and off with out paying thier faares. Londons policy is to get rid of them!
Adittionaly they require alot of passengers to fill them up and make their use economical. if Swansea can not fill up its bendy buses will it have to reduce the freqency of service for economic reasons. Swansey's "Citi Mini" which it operated 20 years ago with a freqency of 10 minutes was surely one of the their best ideas ever and in the country generally. ie., a regular servise, road/space /userfriendly and not too grandiose. How about bringing that back.”

“Mr Sheel 's statement that leaving cars at home will save time and money for the road user is one I wish he and our other councillors would take up with our local train network provider Arriva.
Due to a recent change in circumstances my wife has to work in London two consecutive working days. She travels up early Monday morning and returns late Tuesday night. Weekly cost £230 per return journey. I too have to travel twice monthly in the same direction Cost the same. Between us, if we both rely on public transport we are spending nearly £1300 monthly. This is prohibitive and we will have to resort to the car. We just cannot afford it and for politicians to persuade us otherwise is rubbish! They are not living in the real world and are negligent in not resolving these issues whilst bullying in the way they penalise the car user. Why on earth do they not tackle the isssue at source and think long term and outside of "the box".”

“Oh Joy! Bendy buses to take the place of 'normal' buses - yeah right! Are these long monster buses going to make our streets easier for the cars/vans and bikes to drive in? I don't think so. I am not looking forward to being behind a bendy bus at a traffic light - by the time it's gone through the lights will have changed to red again! Swansea is full of buses that block up streets - especially High Street - and make the traffic build up into a backlog situation - sometimes it's like driving (did I say driving - silly me, parking) on the M25 at rush hour everyday. The Kingsway's new layout is madness - lanes under utilized as the buses are not there (I think they're all in High Street) and lanes so full of cars they hardly move. Then of course there are the people who are so confused by The Kingsway that they are in the designated bus lanes or doing U turns as they've just realised they're in the wrong place. I would think that the person who thought out this plan for Swansea and its buses can't live and travel throught the city everyday otherwise a better system would be in place. I am in and out of the city daily and the buses that clog up the streets are over half empty a lot of the time - it's buses two-thirds the size we need not bigger ones! What about the choas the new works are going to create - hasn't Swansea been through enough chaos in the travelling line and shopping areas already? I think I'll take the train from now on or do my shopping in Cardiff - much easier.”

“The Council Need first to explain why numbers of users in the existing Park and Ride scheme are dropping and missing their "aspirational" targets.The Bendy is misconconceived,a wrong headed solution and will do nothing to get people out of cars or get the CO2 out of the atmosphere.The best solution is a proper light rail electric vehicle as in SANTA CLARA,California .When will we ever learn,What a waste of Transport Grant !!”