NEW BUS STATION FOR CITY – BY 2023
After years of delays, Cardiff is finally getting a bus station. But it’ll be another four years until passengers are using it.
Work to build the bus station, on land in front of Cardiff Central railway station, will start in November, after a drain is moved which will allow the main construction works to begin.
In the second half of 2022, developer Rightacres will hand the building over to Transport for Wales.
There will then be a six to ninemonth fit-out to get it ready for passengers to use from spring 2023.
Several different plans for a transport interchange have been put forward and scrapped over the last five years.
It has taken a deal – finally announced today after contracts were exchanged – between the Welsh Government, financial giant Legal & General and developer Rightacres to bring the scheme to reality.
The Welsh Government has spent £15m buying land for the bus station and will pay £15m to fit out the building.
The bus station funding is part of a wider redevelopment of the whole Cardiff Central public transport
interchange.
The UK Government recently announced £58m towards improving the central railway station.
Transport Minister Ken Skates said: “This Welsh Government-supported investment in the Cardiff Central bus interchange will be developed alongside, and work seamlessly with, Wales’s busiest railway station to form a fully integrated passenger experience at the heart of our capital city.
Rightacres chief executive Paul McCarthy said: “Unlocking this development has been a complex process but we are pleased that the various stakeholders in this project are now aligned and this vitally important development can now get under way.”