Pontypool Youth Council
Below is feedback from the young people involved with Pontypool Community Youth Council:
What would you change in Torfaen?
1. Transport
2. Litter – more bins
3. Lower speed limits (stronger laws)
4. more police on the streets
5. bigger and better youth facilities
6. parks (more equipment)
7. cinema
8. better shop worker attitudes
LITTER - What can we do about it?
What needs to change?
· Less litter
· More bins
· More recycling
· Lids to keep litter in bins
· More awareness of the problems that litter creates
How?
· Make a punishment if people drop litter (enforce the fine)
· Greater education of the problems associated with litter
· Educate people
· Show images of litter harms animals and the environment.
Who should be responsible?
· Schools
· Council should provide more bins
· Police should enforce litter laws
· General public (we should all be responsible for picking up our own litter)
· Us
BUSES - What needs to change?
· Lower student fares
· Improve bus shelters
· Warmer buses
· Cleaner buses
· More buses in the evenings
· Better accessibility to train stations
· More trains to stop at Pontypool train station
· Free bus to train station
· Bus drivers should have more change
· Polite bus drivers
· Readable and reliable bus / train timetables
· Reduce vandalism on bus shelters