MANY footpaths and bridleways across Carmarthenshire have benefitted from upgrading works.
In the last nine months Carmarthenshire County Council’s public right of way team has delivered improvements to routes across 24 town and community council areas.
Improvement works have included replacing old wooden stiles with pedestrian gates, installing new bridleway gates and latches, two new eight-metre steel bridges with anti-slip surfaces and 58 signpost and way marker posts.
Fourteen rights of way surfaces totalling over 16,000 square metres have also been improved and redressed out of the £83.5k Welsh Government’s Access Improvement Grant.
The works will provide a better experience for people using these routes as more people than ever are accessing outdoors to exercise due to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown.
The council’s executive board member for environment, Cllr Hazel Evans said: “We have some beautiful walking, cycling and horse-riding routes across our county and these improvements will make it easier for people to access them. Under the current Welsh Government level four restrictions we ask that you only use the footpaths if they are local to you and remember to keep a distance of two metres from other users and sanitise your hands before and after touching any shared surface.”
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