Improvements to Public Transport in the Bryneglwys Area

With effect from Monday, December 3, 2018, the Council has made its own drivers available to residents in the Bryneglwys and Llandegla areas who currently rely on volunteers for essential public transport journeys. 

The service will be available Mondays to Fridays between 0930 and 1430 to local residents principally to connect at Llandegla to the X51 bus service for onward travel to Ruthin or Wrexham.  Other journey opportunities may also be available including direct transport to Ruthin. Passengers are asked to contribute £2 return to the cost of travel. 

The service is provided with the help of the South Denbighshire Community Partnership (SDCP). 

To book, passengers should contact the SDCP on 01490 266004 up to 1500 on the day before travelling. Monday journeys require a booking on the preceding Friday.  Journeys need to be within the scheme guidelines, available from the SDCP on the above number or the Council's Passenger Transport department on 01824 706982.   All journeys under the Council scheme are subject to the conditions of travel and driver availability (i.e. drivers may be used in other areas).  The Council continues to provide a return taxi link on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays for any resident from Bryneglwys at 0925 to Llandegla for the X51 bus for Wrexham.  This is operated by AAA Taxis of Ruthin and passengers will no longer need to book this: it will now operate without the need to telephone the operator ahead.

 

Road signs to be installed to warn drivers

Signs will be installed warning drivers of hazardous conditions on a steep section of road.

The Council will install three signs on the road between Prestatyn and Gwaenysgor warning drivers of icy conditions.

Over the last five years there have been 45 accidents linked to wintry road conditions in the area and the signs will be deployed when conditions are hazardous and will instruct drivers to avoid the route.

Councillor Brian Jones, the Council’s lead member for Highways, Planning and Sustainable Travel, said: “These signs, which will only be visible when conditions are hazardous, will warn drivers to use an alternative route.

“Conditions on this stretch of road can become very dangerous, even just with frost, and drivers should not use the road when the signs are in operation. Drivers who use the route when conditions are hazardous could be putting lives at risk.

“Due to the gradient of this stretch of road it is unsafe for the Council to deploy gritters to the area.”

The warning signs are due to be in place by the end of November.

The alternative route is Allt y Graig in Dyserth, a section of road which is gritted by the Council when conditions require.