Advantages: Good existing infrastructure that is slowly improving (although not quickly enough) Disadvantages: Uneven quality of transport services.
...infrequent and overpriced. Queuing and getting your ticket at the city's main station can be long leading to delays. Additionally some services are too crowded and a backlog of trains can occur at the main station leading to additional delays
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Cardiff is very much geared to the automobile (like so many other large cities). Buses are one of its main assets with a large fleet and good coverage. There is also a large number of Taxi's ... ...is however the ruler of the city, which leads to much traffic congestion.
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Bus services have a wide catchment area, are one of the cheapest modes of transport in the city and come frequently at most hours. Information at bus stops and on the buses themselves is good with electronic noticeboards clearly displaying running times and bus numbers.
Taxi's are mostly found in the city centre to flag down, but can be called citywide. The main ...
Puma1000 19.01.2005
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Unfortunateley even though Cardiff Uni's leaflet claims that Cardiff has 'a good bus service', I'm afraid that's a bit of a faux pas! Cardiff Council have put money into the buses but not into the right areas and the organisation is disgusting. I live in Llanishen and I'm forever late for College because the buses are never there on time. There should be a bus at 8:53 which is always half an hour late and in that time there should have been a 9:11 ... ...sat in Cardiff bus station while the driver has a fag/coffee break! Also they seem to get the rudest people imaginable to drive them, some are O.K but there are many nasty driver who seem to hate people
And talking about Cigarettes that reminds me. Is everyone blind or Something! Well the ones who miss the sign saying 'You can be fined for smoking on buses' and 'No Smoking'. People sit upstairs and smoke whilst the driver is well aware of it! It's ...
ElenCross 28.07.2000
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Review of Getting around in Cardiff
Advantages: less Stress than driving Disadvantages: a little bit on the Expensive side
I Have been using the train services in Cardiff for over seven years now. There is a good service from west wales through sansea to Cardiff They run about every hour. There is also services from all the Cardiff Valleys and a hourly sevice from Maesteg. On arriving in Cardiff Central You can get a service over to Queen street where the main shopping centre is this service runs about every five minutes . Ther are plenty of destinations you can go to ... ...Harbour,Bristol, Manchester, liverpool, Newcastle Birmingham, Tenby, Barry Island, Brighton, Exeter, Holyhead, Warminster, Swindon for the designer outlets. London Waterloo for the Eurostar. Once you get to cardiff central . You can get to anywhere in the counrty Directly or at the most with two changes of train. The train is more relaxing than driving andhas more room to move than coaches or Airplanes. ...
Tracy57 02.08.2000
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