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Highways, Transportation and Strategic Projects

 
Each year, the Council delivers a large capital programme for Highways, Transportation and Strategic Projects, representing a major element of our Transforming RCT investment. The 2025/26 programme was worth £29.6 million when agreed in March 2025, and has since grown by £7.5 million with new funding agreed for Council-wide priorities in September 2025.

The programme is often supported by further Welsh Government funding, and covers many areas of investment – from resurfacing roads and footways to providing funding for flood alleviation, coal tip maintenance, highway and park structures, car parks and active travel. We’re also continuing to develop two major transportation schemes for the future, in Llanharan and the north of the Cynon Valley.

Further details about this year’s capital investment can be found here:

Some key aspects of this year’s investment include:

  • More than £10 million funding for road resurfacing, with 78 schemes agreed in March 2025 and an extra 39 agreed in September 2025. Four unadopted roads schemes are also being delivered using Council funding, while extra Welsh Government funding secured in April 2025 will add to this programme.
  • More than £900,000 funding for footway renewals, with seven schemes agreed in March 2025 and then an extra 12 agreed in September 2025.
  • More than £6 million secured from Welsh Government for flood alleviation across the Small Scale Works Grant, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Programme, and the Resilient Roads Fund. All works under these programmes are met by Council match funding, typically at 15%.
  • Almost £10 million for highways structures, £250,000 for parks structures, £330,000 for street lighting, and £40,000 for car parks.  Pictured below is the major structures project at White Bridge, Pontypridd, which was completed in 2024/25 and celebrated in the Institution of Civil Engineers Wales Awards.

White Bridge completed

 

  • £500,000 for Park and Rides, creating extra parking at railway stations. As part of this, the Treorchy Park and Ride project was completed in 2025.
  • More than £6 million secured from Welsh Government’s Active Travel Fund to develop schemes between Talbot Green and Llanharan, and Treorchy and Treherbert, plus continued delivery of the Rhondda Fach Active Travel Route.

The below images show sections of phase four, delivered in summer 2025:


Rhondda Fach phase four grid

  • The continued development of two major transportation schemes for the future. More than £8 million was allocated to the Llanharan Sustainable Transport Corridor across the March and September capital programmes, along with more than £3.1 million for the A465 Cynon Gateway North.
  • More than £11.4 million secured from Welsh Government’s Coal Tip Safety Grant, to monitor and maintain coal tips in Rhondda Cynon Taf in 2025/26, with the works being carried out by our dedicated Coal Tip Safety team. This includes the continuation of the major Tylorstown Landslip Remediation Plan.
  • Around £280,000 secured from Welsh Government’s Safe Routes in Communities Fund, to develop and deliver a local scheme in Cwmparc.

The Council also continues to support the Cardiff Capital Region City Deal and the South Wales Metro, which will deliver electrification of the Treherbert, Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil lines, and increase the frequency of rail services.