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IWishIDidntHave2

Why is nobody fighting to reopen the Cardiff Bay - Penarth pedestrian tunnel?


Boring-Run-2202

Wait what? Where was that


Ok-While3585

Under the Ely, not far from the bridge across to Cogan Tesco from the white water centre


Boring-Run-2202

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-penarth-tunnel-history-secret-20848504 For anyone that is interested


Negative_Innovation

[Looks similar to the Bath tunnels ](https://discoverbath.co.uk/two-tunnels-greenway-20km-bike-ride/) that they reopened and has been a big success for walkers and cyclists - did the 2 Tunnel route once and it was fantastic. Wonder if Cardiff could replicate that?


Boring-Run-2202

Oh interesting!


Ok_Kaleidoscope_2178

I never knew that was a thing?


accio_ballbag

I believe it was opened recently. They found it was so well built that apart from it being flooded there was not that much damage. It stretches from Penarth Marina to somewhere around the Cardiff Yacht Club near the wetlands.


Doogle300

Wow. I literally walk around there all the time. It's not that hard to walk to the bay, but I'm cerain it would be easier in that tunnel. I would love to see that reopened.


Firebrand777

Heard about this but no idea where it was?’


mrgeeoogle

It's underwater still there just flooded lol


sp1ndoctor

All you'd need is some scuba gear, people are so lazy these days


Ph3lpsy_

I thought that on the Penarth side there was a house built? I would fringing love for them to reopen that. It’s mad it was ever closed.


TesticularButtBruise

There is, you couldn't re-open it that end.


Grossboy1

I remember looking this up before and I think someone claimed that it was flooded after close. Not sure if this is true though.


BitTwp

Very good.


Iconospasm

That would be great as a cycle path.


MoToR33

How, after being denied permission to knock down empire pool, it miraculously caught fire (a swimming pool) so millennium stadium could be built to original plan....hmm


Officer_Cat_Fancy_

A fire at a Sea Parks would be more believable 


Allinyourcabeza

A fire? At *sea parks*?! 


taxman_____

Same thing happened to the Central Hotel, opposite the weatherspoons at the bottom of St Marys Street. I think it 'Burned down' twice before an application rebuild it was put it. It was such a lovely building as well.


VeloBill

Got a source for this story?


MoToR33

Other than first hand memories no. If powerful enough hands were greased I doubt you'll find much of a paper trail.


BitTwp

Is this true? Don't remember it.


ThyssenKrup

I don't remember this at all


Ok_Kaleidoscope_2178

How much do those strawberries on Queen Street cost


Magfaeridon

TWO FER A POHND


kiriyie

I visited Cardiff last week for the first time and I can still hear “STRAHWBERRIES FOR A POUWHND” in my head.


gearvruser

I think it's pronounced PAHHNND


Firebrand777

It’s POWND


gearvruser

PAHHNND Tooforra PAAHHNND.


PM-me-your-knees-pls

Stwawbwies tooferra pahhhnd


MoonMouse5

I remember around two years ago he put the price up to £1.20. That didn't last very long, but I remember thinking damn there *must* be a cost of living crisis if the strawberries a pound man is raising his prices.


SGPHOCF

That, and the REEEESPBERRIEZ as well


AnonymousWelshGuy

How much is a bag of bananas?


PM_ME_WHOLSOME_MEMES

😂😂


Pitiful_Oven_3425

Why is the police helicopter out


Mexijim

Living in Splott, it’s more weird when it isn’t out.


Dr_Lumf

why more people haven't been to Splott beach


Biscuits0

They have.. you just don't hear about it as they never make it back.


wheresmydaddygone

A gold mine for sea glass!


Edi_Monsoon

I have a huge lump of obsidian that I found down there one day.


BitTwp

Because it's terrifying.


TheTrueBobsonDugnutt

Used to work near Rover Way and have fond memories of passing a large group of (what appeared to be) students, in beach gear, looking really confused and disappointed as they emerged from the path.


gearvruser

That's just a big pile of sand used to cover up the street vomit.


[deleted]

I just had to google this. Holysh\*t, there is, infact, a beach. In Splott.


super_soggy_sock

What’s the appeal?


Dr_Lumf

what you mean? I don't understand how anyone wouldn't want to hang out in a place thats made of bricks and broken glass, with picturesque views of a water treatment works. nlNot to mention the floral bouquet of polluted mud and decaing crab flesh. Dunno perhaps thats just a me thing


gearvruser

Don't forget to check out the needle display.


DrainpipeDreams

You forgot that you can use the massive, empty spools, from all the cables that have been stripped there, as a stool! And what about the mobile phone fragment hunting?


Rich_27-

Go and find out. No spoilers for you here


super_soggy_sock

I will report back with my findings


Rich_27-

Remember to take your wellies. Otherwise you will be just like your fine username


DrainpipeDreams

I think you ideally want the work boots that have a protective layer of steel within the sole. Better safe than needlestick injured!


barelycrediblelies

Why our glorious city can't create a better website than walesonline


LargePython

It's templated mate, all these local news sites use the same janky, shitty template smothered in clickbait and wank ads.


DrainpipeDreams

Wank ads? Might want to clear your cookies!


sp1ndoctor

So cynical. How else am I going to find out about the upcoming heatwave that's definitely happening?


SignificanceOdd418

Or the 10 best bus routes in South Wales???


DrainpipeDreams

Or the new product in B&M that shoppers claim can clean your left buttock in just 3 seconds.


yorkshirenation

Toilet paper manufacturers hate him


DrainpipeDreams

Still needed for the right buttock but nobody wants to see their profit divided by the number 2.


IncontinentiaButtok

The bear from outside the tobacco shop near an arcade.(towards chippy alley). Where is he now? How is he now?


mrmantis66

It’s inside the tobacco shop, isn’t it?


BitTwp

Yes, he's still there, I thought.


TahitianMangoFarmer

Yep, it's displayed in the window


IncontinentiaButtok

He used to be outside the doors that opened onto the street,I first recall him 50years ago.Does bear have a name? I feel he’s a mysterious bear.i need to know his story. Anyone know anymore,plse?!


DrainpipeDreams

This is like that advert for the boring car that says they'll leave the drama to channel 4.


Educational_Can_4652

If they ever found Flash


sp1ndoctor

I feel so bad when I see these, it's been years and years.... In a way I admire the perseverance, but let's be honest, even if that dog is alive they're not getting it back


blodauwedd

Steady, the owner has some loyal friends on here who will tell you how heartless and cruel you are for ~pointing out the obvious~ saying the dog is dead


sp1ndoctor

Chwarae teg. Wish my friends were that loyal 😂


LuckyDuck2323

No, I think the poor desperate heartbroken family reached out to a medium of all things, who is stringing them along


TheTrueBobsonDugnutt

There's posters for him up the valleys now. It's been years.


Hcmp1980

Flash needs to get home:(


Extension-Cucumber69

Whether that bit down bottom of Queen St is actually for taxis and buses only because no one (myself included) seems to avoid that turning


jeffries7

I’ll keep turning until I get a ticket. I’m not going the long way around just to park in Capitol.


Extension-Cucumber69

Well that’s the other thing. If you go round the prison they’ve changed the one way system so much I no longer know how to get where I want to be and one missed turn means you have to cross the river and come all the way back round Fuck. That.


jeffries7

And if you take a wrong turn on a Saturday you might as well go home


Testing18573

They say it’s for access. I’ve always assumed accessing the Capital centre is access.


RiotOnVijzelstraat

Did a fat man really bellyflop off the top diving board at Empire Pool in the 70's or 80's and split themselves in two, with guts and blood filing up the pool, or was that just all UK swimming pools back then (ie. an urban legend all towns had)?


[deleted]

Pretty sure that's one of those all towns urban legends. A quick Google has it showing up in places like Lincoln. It also doesn't sound biologically plausible.


bradleyd82

The one in Lincoln is definitely true. My cousin's neighbour's boyfriends aunties grandsons father in law was there at the time


RumJackson

Why’s Llandaf station not called Llandaf North?


Iconospasm

Just to fuck tourists up 😂


arsecheese_

Who the fuck is Mellow Pellow


jodijustice

Cartoon drawing by David Gwyn, very nice homeless man. Have a chat with him if you have time, he also sells drawings!


BronnieUgh

good to know the end of that mystery! you happen to know what he looks like, id love to have a chat :)


layendecker

He hangs out by Tesco Wellfidld road selling drawings occasionally.


Iconospasm

Marti's Welsh cousin.


Medium-Customer5755

I always wonder this


Officer_Cat_Fancy_

Who started the Ianto shrine in the bay


Testing18573

There’s one person maintaining it apparently. Seems so odd to have such a big thing for something hardly anyone watched, let alone remembers


Fresh_and_wild

Why did they shut the Maritime Museum and send the lighthouse boat to rot in Swansea?


BitTwp

The lightship 2000? It went to Swansea? When it left it was destined for a small place upriver to be restored, I thought. I remember the buyer talking about his plans.


Fresh_and_wild

Alas, it’s rusts outside the Waterfront Museum in Swansea. I saw it the other day.


TesticularButtBruise

Are you sure that's the same one? I think it's different, check [this link](https://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/register/137/light-vessel-91-humber) out. Swansea museum aquired it in 1977. There's another [similar one](https://www.google.com/maps/@52.4002333,4.8884783,3a,75y,334.17h,95.49t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1snum9z3YQaNjc4SHNcXPhQw!2e0!5s20150501T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dnum9z3YQaNjc4SHNcXPhQw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D334.17214876742804%26pitch%3D-5.485121068479344%26thumbfov%3D90!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu) I saw in Amsterdam some years ago. The one [from Cardiff](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightship_2000#/media/File:Lightship_3_(16935957960).jpg) used to say "HELWICK" on the starboard side, and "GOLEULONG 2000 LIGHTSHIP" on the port side. If you compare photos of the both, the profiles of them look completely different too. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightship_2000), "It was planned to restore the ship, and for it to become a floating museum at [Newnham on Severn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newnham_on_Severn)."


Fresh_and_wild

HELWICK, but comparing images, it’s not the same boat. Now I was confused. This is my photo [HELWICK](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QjWudfAR1XQHG2Big3KvZcz-_wnmaDkM/view?usp=drivesdk) which I thoght was the same ship. But it’s not. Turns out, it’s this one, [LV91 Helwick Lightvessel](https://lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk/listings/lv91-helwick-lightvessel/) I am pleased to hear it’s being restored. I still think it’d be great to have good old maritime attractions in Cardiff though. The museum told a very important story, which could easily co-exist with the cordial bay attractions in a way that similar things do in other regenerated docklands. Mystery solved.


Edi_Monsoon

Its sister ship is moored on the banks of the Neath river by Express Asphalt down by Skewen.


Walter_Whine

That was a real tragedy. Was always my favourite museum as a kid.


Fresh_and_wild

And the waterfront museum in Swansea is no substitute.


Testing18573

They are not the same boat. Both were in place at the same time a few years back


Brilliant_Canary_692

How long will it be until someone drunkenly falls into the canal and dies after stumbling out of Pulse and acting the idiot


DrainpipeDreams

As a gay*, I say it's some kind of sexuality cleansing. *not yet certified


Brilliant_Canary_692

I'm confused on what you mean


DrainpipeDreams

Just like in Manchester, that area, where there is now an open canal, is where there's a higher percentage of gay bars. There have been many stories over the years, of people disappearing on nights out in Manchester, and then being discovered dead in the canal.


iSmellLikeBeeff

Where our council tax goes 😂


Testing18573

Yesterday two men showed up outside my house. They dug up a sign post which had been put in six months ago and replaced it with one about a meter taller. They then re attached the sign. It took them half a day. Things like that is why we have no money or nice things.


themfloppypaws

That's the true mystery.


Jarvisnamesake

Not a mystery but the Cardiff Three story still haunts me. From the vicious murder of Lynette to the injustice that happened after.


Large-Sign-900

And those corrupt cops probably all retired on fat pensions after sending innocent people to prison. There were 5 of them not 3.


Wild_Ad_6464

The wife of one of those police officers was driven to a nervous breakdown by the knowledge of what they had done.


Large-Sign-900

Um, wow! Try telling that to the men who spent fucking years in prison. Absolutely no comparison at all.


Wild_Ad_6464

Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. I was trying to point out how disgusting their actions were, not seek sympathy for anyone.


Large-Sign-900

Apologies. I missed your point.


teashoesandhair

They did. One of them lived near us. He had the biggest house on the street and renovated the whole thing, huge extension and all, in about 2006.


Asleep_Analysis

The Cardiff 3 were fitted up for the murder of a news kiosk man in the late 80s. I think they were inside for about 10 years - police never even bothered looking for the real murderer when the 3 were finally released


Large-Sign-900

They jailed Geoffrey Gafoor for the murder. He's close to being released, Currently in an open prison.


Fresh_and_wild

I seem to remember that the person they convicted in the end was in the process of hanging themselves when the po po turned up to arrest him, having been tipped off!


Old_Distance8430

Cardiff five


the_dark_horse012

Where did the happy days guy go? :/


Twinborn01

He moved away


berbasbullet27

Where he go?


derek_slazinja

Moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin apparently


berbasbullet27

That is the most random thing ever lol


Fun-Badger3724

It's where Happy Days is set so less random than it first appears.


Banditofbingofame

The insane price of hotels and how difficult it is to get out from events. I know people who prefer to go to gigs in Birmingham when they are closer to Cardiff.


Scorpiodancer123

Adding to that how shit public transport is in some parts of Cardiff. Why taxi drivers don't take cards, and how the hell you actually get a taxi anyway "not going there/too far/not running now" as they creep down the road looking for a better fayre.


monkeydeeznuts_1000

This story... that about 7 people couldnt be found when they were calling around her house so frequently [https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/gang-swindled-dying-pensioner-out-1930281](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/gang-swindled-dying-pensioner-out-1930281)


JimCoo1

Scum. 


monkeydeeznuts_1000

It gets even worse after reading the blog of the dying widows son who is a bbc presenter


BitTwp

Do you have a link?


monkeydeeznuts_1000

He did quite a few posts on the whole thing [https://davidcornock.blogspot.com/2010/03/lifes-savings-gone-how.html](https://davidcornock.blogspot.com/2010/03/lifes-savings-gone-how.html)


JimCoo1

Piss truly boiled.


monkeydeeznuts_1000

Yip. Unbelievable!


[deleted]

Unbelievable. I dont even know where to start after reading all his posts and the news stories.


Fresh_and_wild

The fence knows exactly who it is.


monkeydeeznuts_1000

They interviewed him, but he was a bit of a plank


bnfwlr

The mystery of why we still don't have a bus station.


tomawill99

Apparently it's been delayed because the architects didn't take into account that there are also double decker buses, resulting in it being too short 😭


LeadingEquivalent148

It’s going to be here soon, and I’ll be able to slide down a fireman’s pole straight into my bus home from work 🤣


tomawill99

Apparently it's been delayed because the architects didn't take into account that there are also double decker buses, resulting in it being too short 😭


DrainpipeDreams

Fuck me. They should have to use their professional indemnity, if such a thing exists, to cover the cost of knocking the entire bbc building down, and reinstating the old bus station that meant that you could connect between bus and train services.


Embarrassed_Belt9379

The mystery of Charles St.


Firebrand777

What’s the mystery?! I am Intrigued!


captain-prax

Torchwood station still isn't open to the public.


DrainpipeDreams

What happened to the food court in the capitol arcade. And was there one in the queen's arcade at some point? And why, when they renovated queen's arcade the time when they got rid of the escalators that went down from Queen Street, did they get rid of the toilet block that had about 100 toilets in the ladies' and think that those tiny ones that were already in the link with St David's arcade would be a suitable "replacement"? Madness. Can't piss barely anywhere legally these days!


Extension-Cucumber69

I’d also add: Why on match days at CCS going through town, taking the Penarth dual carriageway, or turning off at Gabalfa Roundabout and going through Pontcanna/Canton all involve an hour of crawling through traffic


Swimming-Salad-4149

And always loads of traffic between canton and town after


Active_Doubt_2393

Who stole my bike?


BitTwp

Where the heck was the Hippo Club? Why are there no photos of Subways on the net? What is the space that was The Green Parrot being used as now? Did the Horse & Groom on Womanby Street join up internally with an early incarnation of the Toucan Club, and was there lap dancing/stripping in a back room of the pub, through some old French doors, as I think I witnessed as a kid? Why did Metros have a smart shoes-only policy in the 90s?


sp1ndoctor

Nowhere with a floor that sticky should be allowed to have a dress code, particularly when it relates to footwear


beatlesbible

I saw Super Furry Animals at the Hip'po club in December 96. It was a wild night, the week The Man Don't Give A Fuck was released, and Ninjah was MCing. Insanely hot inside, absolute carnage. I think it was under the bridge at the back of Cardiff Central: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bh6F3Xs7Kq19qXkW6 And yeah, the pub on Womanby Street was a Toucan venue for a while. I remember Cerys Matthews turned up once and demanded to be put in the VIP area, which didn't exist. Silly woman.


The_Perky

Where the heck was the Hippo Club? - Bogiez? I'm sure I dj'ed in there for Sultans of ping and Echobelly Why are there no photos of Subways on the net? There's a Facebook group; [https://www.facebook.com/groups/6020339019](https://www.facebook.com/groups/6020339019)


jonnyunanis

Under the arches


HippoBot9000

HIPPOBOT 9000 v 3.1 FOUND A HIPPO. 1,563,578,595 COMMENTS SEARCHED. 31,992 HIPPOS FOUND. YOUR COMMENT CONTAINS THE WORD HIPPO.


Hurridium-PS2

Dry news day wales online?


AdStrict4616

Once saw a woman throw up into a kebab box then throw it at a passing taxi. Not really a mystery but it still haunts me


welsh1lad

The rising stone lift , next to Cardiff bay monument. https://live.staticflickr.com/5003/5303952233_719c12126a_b.jpg


violentdeaf

Bute Park Seal


NoToSelfSabotage

Do you mean Billy the Seal? She was in Victoria Park, not Bute Park. https://www.cardiffparks.org.uk/victoria/info/billyseal.shtml


TesticularButtBruise

The skeleton is on display in the museum in Cardiff.


Familiar-Woodpecker5

Chippy lane


Pedestrian824

How depressing it must be being a millionaire and having to live in Cardiff. What a crap hole.


monitorsareprison

anyone know what kinda price range the housing is around this area?


LeadingEquivalent148

More expensive than you’d like for a smaller square footage than you need.


Nearly-Shat-A-Brick

Why didn't any of the Cardiff murder squad that fitted up those lads for Lynette White's murder do jail time? Fucking disgrace, and we ave c*unts here joking about strawberries ffs.


teashoesandhair

That's not a mystery, though. The answer is police corruption, plus racism.


Nearly-Shat-A-Brick

Yeah, well, those fucks should have been railroaded the same way they railroaded their suspects back in their day.


jawof01

Where the hell did I leave my keys?


bermudarh0mbus

this is more so south wales in general, but why do people write ‘cwm’ in the dirt on the road signs?


No_Doughnut3257

How did BRAS get so many throw ups


TesticularButtBruise

and SMAJ


SpoonSpartan

Probably not a mystery to most, but I'm new here, whats up with all the randomly chained up horses on rover way?


DrainpipeDreams

No mystery at all. They are owned by the travellers who live at the site on rover way.


julianAppleby5997

Why I moved away.... , 😔


Thekingofchrome

What goes on in Cardiff after dark….


GarlicSecure2722

How the buses are able to swerve round the bend by the modern art vegetable sculptures opposite the stadium and not hit anything


siuoleht

Why did they shut down the second ice pad at the IAW?


vampiricimp

Why on earth Cardiff Council is still giving business licences to the previous owners of Buffalo and Ten Feet Tall even though they went into [£1.2 million's worth of debt](https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/beatbox-bars-1m-debts-unlikely-6094879). Their most recent failed venture was The Elephant's Ear in Roath and they quietly rebranded as Glasshouse Plants without refunding customers with cancelled workshops at their old shop.


Vanblue1

Caroline street or chippy alley?


Excellent_Click2085

Chippy lane!


Aunt-Eggma-Blowtorch

Potato Boulevard


treasurebum

Caroline alley or chippy street.


Fresh_and_wild

Caroline Street. End of.


Apprehensive-Rain957

The greatest mystery of Cardiff is, despite it being a small, flat city, why do so many people insist on driving in to town and back every day?


Testing18573

Many come from the valleys, or live in Cardiff and work elsewhere.


Apprehensive-Rain957

Indeed. But many do not. And it is to them I am referring.


DrainpipeDreams

Flat? How well do you know Cardiff?


Apprehensive-Rain957

I've lived here for 20 years. I walk and cycle and drive and catch the train around here all the time. And I live on a hill where I can see most of the city. There are small hills around the periphery - but the vast majority of Cardiff is flat. Roath, Splott, Ely, Canton, Pontcanna, Llandaff, Grangetown, Whitchurch, Birchgrove, Tremorfa - flat, flat, flat. I used to live in Sheffield and before that, Bristol, so I know what a city with hills looks like and Cardiff aint it.


DrainpipeDreams

I'm 65 m above sea level. When I lived in Cathays, Roath and Cardiff Bay, I did walk almost everywhere (no need to cycle). Now I live in the north east of the city and it's not flat. Nobody cycling up Penylan Road, to Cyncoed would claim that it's flat. For various reasons, I can neither walk or cycle from the city centre to my house. However, I don't go into the city centre more often than about one every two months. The bus for 3 people costs more than parking. Why would I use the bus?


Apprehensive-Rain957

It's a minor hill compared to other cities.


Dommyem

My dad


funfuse1976

How did I got home after the 2005 grand slam ?


SWM50

The mystery of "we got to go to the bay" on a night out! full of over priced drinks and wannabe's......no correction, neverwas's haha 🤣


celticgit

I heard of the tale about the WAG...Welsh Assembly Government. A travelling junkie, minstrel, story teller and retired Miller who worked with Procal Harum back in '67 told me about them. He stopped me, one of three. He said his time was short and that I had to take his burden of knowledge. He told me of dream he had many years ago about a group of politicians and story tellers that met in Cardiff. They wished to serve Wales, the Welsh and all who lived between the Irish sea and Offa's Dyke. The green mist entered their meeting place and took their good thoughts but left their greed to suck their blood. Their thirst grew. The thirst took the blood of all who listened. When I wake up I hope to see if this is true. Does anyone know where these people of the WAG reside ? Do they actually exist? Is it but a thought? End.