Green Key Lives...
At last, a public statement on what's happening to the controversial Snowdonia Green Key project - and you thought it was dead and buried...
Posted: 19 March 2003
by Jon
The controversial Snowdonia Green Key Initiative lives on, sort
of, that's the scoop news from specialist North Wales outdoors site
Snowdonia-active.com.
If you missed all the fuss last year, then where were you? Green
Key is, or was, a radical scheme to re-vamp the public transport
network in Snowdonia, stop visitors parking outside selected entry
towns and corral them into selected developments.
When the scheme was put up for public consulatation, the fierce
response from locals was unprecedented and led to the initial
proposals being quietly shelved, though there has been a distinct
lack of an official statement.
Now it seems that the original Green Key Project Officer,
Gwenllian Owens 'has left her post' and the emphasis is, according to
a statement from Chairperson of the Snowdonia Green Key Management
Group, Peter Ogden is on re-establishing 'the protocol for dialogue
with the community and user based Focus groups.
There will be a new Project Manager appointed next month and he or
she will, it seems, be working with the local community to gain
support for any further intitiatives and developing the public
transport service in the area. All in all sounds a lot more reasonable than before. Cotton wool for that blloody nose anyone?
To read the full
story see Snowdonia-active.com which is also a handy resource for
local outdoors businesses, news, facilities etc.
We like the link to snogonline,
the Snowdonia Nights Out Gazette
Discuss this story
Well I'm glad it hasn't gone completely. I think the original scheme may have worked a la London congestion charging - everyone screamed about that, but it's turned out to be a total success. We don't have people of Ken Livingstone's vision round here, though. I hope they bring the Gateway towns propsal back, and improve the buses. Perhaps this time round though, they should leave the carparking arrangements alone and start with increasing transport choices first.
Posted: 19/03/2003 at 19:36
I agree Dan. As somebody who visits Snowdonia regularly and has to rely on public transport, I welcome improvements to the bus service and rail services which at the moment are crap. At the same time I also understand that the original proposal would have had a devastating impact on the economy of the smaller villages, with only the gateway towns benefitting. Hopefully commonsense will now prevail and a compromise can be found and I will be able to catch a bus out of the Ogwen valley after a hard day on the hill. Usually I hitchhike!
Posted: 09/05/2003 at 07:06
I think people who don't live in Wales should listen to the locals (93% of businesses are against this proposal). Common senses must prevail, keep the local economy alive and drive to Snowdonia (as 94% of hill users arrived by non-public transport last year), it makes sense in the long run. Join the rest of the British public and drive. Troll…troll, troll….
Posted: 11/05/2003 at 00:51
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