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During the first few years of "planning" it was put forward that the "bus station" would have space for hundreds of bicycles that could be left all day at minimal cost to the riders. Waters and SusTrans were behind that.

Labour's Cardiff DISintegrated Transport System.

Cardiff city council couldn't run a bath , corrupt and inept . There was nothing wrong with what was there in the first place. Imagine you've arrived at Cardiff train station come outside to get a bus connection and met with that crap .

Swansea managed it OK. The ‘beeb’ building should never have been allowed there!

Nice video. It's true, Cardiff should've known their worth and not given so much of the old station's footprint to the BBC but hey ho, it's done now. Not sure what the people moaning wish to achieve to be honest. I believe they are looking into coach facilities in the train station car park to eventually move NX out of Sophia Gardens.

Just in time for the commonwealth games!

Great video 😀 Nice train shots and editing. I went there earlier in the year and the new station is enormous!

How do you pay the transport? by credit card? buy the ticket at a machine?

Good video, you have gained a new subscriber

Can a coach station be built on the south side of Central station?

I believe this whole episode is very very suspicious. Before there was a perfectly adequate Bus Terminal that admittedly needed updating but was almost ideal as an interchange for both buses and coaches alike and next to the Station meant easy interchange between buses, coaches, trains and taxi's. And then for no apparent reason the site was sold off to private Company's and in doing so scattered Cardiff's bus services throughout the city so that any visitor wanting onward travel from the Station would have to wander around the city looking for their onward bus. Plus, National Express Coaches, you now need to get a taxi from the station to Sophia Gardens and for a visitor to Cardiff this would be quite daunting not to mention expensive. So my question is this WHY sell off a perfectly good Bus and Coach Interchange and in its place put in a confusing haphazard and in the case of National Express, an expensive transport system. Has anyone even asked Cardiff Council why the former site was sold off? And was the proceeds of the sale 100% audited correctly? Had this been somewhere like Switzerland with its perfectly organised and integrated transport and interchange system, the plan approved by Cardiff Council would never have got off the ground in fact even suggesting that plan would be met with howls of laughter and incredulity !

Its a disgrace. Cardiff Council and the Welsh Government bleat on about active travel and integrated transport but the new bus station delivers on neither of those. if you want to go from train to coach journey you have at least a half mile walk with your luggage to get to Sophia Gardens to get a National Express coach. Many of the local buses will also not be stopping at this station but continuing at their present stops on Westgate Street which is a ten minute walk from the station. Someone has benefitted new bus station from this but its certainly not the public!!!

It's good to see new transport facilities being built, although it's a shame about the coaches not being able to access it. St Margaret's bus station in Leicester is similar as it was rebuilt a few years ago but it has National Express coaches stopping in coach bays on one side of the building.

I like the alternating slow shots with commentary - that pacing is nice, it enhances the storytelling.

I liked this video and I would like to see more. I especially liked that the lift announcements had Welsh translations. Are there plans for any more videos like these soon?