St. David's Day 2025

Dated: 28 Feb, 2025

Happy St David’s Day

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to those of you celebrating St David’s Day on 1st March 2025. As there are likely to be dragon parades and dancing in the streets, some of your regular routes may be closed and there will be many more pedestrians on the streets.

Adding to this, there will people travelling to the events so traffic volume will increase. To ensure everyone has a happy and safe St David’s please consider the following information:

• Check your route before setting off – delays and detours add to driver frustration and increased CO2 emissions.
• Be considerate of all road users and never lose sight of how extremely vulnerable pedestrians, cyclists and motor cyclists really are.
• Remain alert even in stationary traffic. Both pedestrians and cyclists may weave through queues of traffic and/or position themselves in your blind spots, oblivious of the dangers.
• Indicate in good time before a junction, or when changing lanes to allow others time to react. Make sure that your indicator stays on, but only until the manoeuvre is complete.
• Before pulling away at junctions or traffic lights, be sure to look over the dashboard.
• When approaching any pedestrian crossing be prepared to slow down and stop.
• Always give way to pedestrians who have already started to cross a road. If you turn into a road and people are crossing it you must stop, wait and let them cross.
• A pedestrian with a white stick and a red band is deaf and blind.
• Be patient with elderly pedestrians. Allow them time to cross the road. Be careful, they may misjudge your speed. Elderly people may have difficulty estimating the speed of traffic and may overestimate their ability to cross a road. They may move more slowly and take longer to cross the road.
• Be aware that pedestrians can be unpredictable, especially young ones. Children are especially hard to see. Take extra care when reversing and when traveling along roads where there are many parked cars.
• Children are more likely to move quickly and run into the road from nowhere. Pre-adolescent children won't have developed the ability to judge speed accurately and may think they have plenty of time to cross the road when they don't.
• Whenever you are likely to meet pedestrians drive carefully and slowly. Take extra care when passing parked vehicles, as there is always the danger that a pedestrian could suddenly step out into the road without even looking.
• When approaching any pedestrian crossing be prepared to slow down and stop.
• Always give way to pedestrians who have already started to cross a road. If you turn into a road and people are crossing it you must stop, wait and let them cross.

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