:00:00. > :00:19.I was born and bred in the city. The streets where I grew up have not
:00:20. > :00:20.changed much. You cannot say that for the beating heart of the
:00:21. > :00:48.capital. I know not everyone enjoys this and
:00:49. > :00:53.many people the most city with suspicion. They tell me that almost
:00:54. > :01:00.daily on my radio show and in a way I can see why, because Cardiff has
:01:01. > :01:05.benefited from being the capital city. But they are played to the
:01:06. > :01:18.place, it has taken its chance, reinventing itself against all the
:01:19. > :01:27.odds. I used to come to go to the mosque. It was docs back then,
:01:28. > :01:38.derelict and depressed. Industry and the population was shrinking, but
:01:39. > :01:43.then things began to change. Look at Cardiff now. The city has completely
:01:44. > :01:50.transformed itself in around 20 years. The jobs are in government,
:01:51. > :01:53.media, leisure and shopping. It describes itself as Europe's
:01:54. > :02:07.youngest capital and it has more growing to do. My dad used to be a
:02:08. > :02:13.bus driver and finished up on this very route taking to this around.
:02:14. > :02:18.The city's population is predicted to go up by another 80,000 over the
:02:19. > :02:23.next 20 years, and increase upper quarter. I have enjoyed watching it
:02:24. > :02:29.grow but I have my concerns. Tonight I'm trying to find out what the
:02:30. > :02:34.future may hold for my city. Firstly, Peter Finch. He has been
:02:35. > :02:41.charting the changing city in his books. He remembers the old days
:02:42. > :02:45.well. They were dark, the buildings were dark, everything was grubby,
:02:46. > :02:51.street lights were dim, pavements were cracked. By comparison to what
:02:52. > :02:58.we have now. You felt it was a place of work. It was for people who went
:02:59. > :03:03.to do dirty work. You did not come to Cardiff because you wanted to
:03:04. > :03:10.come here, it was a place you pass through. It was wonderful but it was
:03:11. > :03:17.not as it is now. The ability to go around to different destinations, to
:03:18. > :03:20.set in a cafe on the street, but now they are everywhere, there are
:03:21. > :03:26.places to it from one place to the other which makes it into the city
:03:27. > :03:32.and the destination, and a great place to live. That is why so many
:03:33. > :03:37.houses are going up around the city. They cannot build them fast enough
:03:38. > :03:44.as more people are drawn here. People like this couple. They moved
:03:45. > :03:50.to Cardiff Bay from Swindon when she got a job in insurance. My job
:03:51. > :03:57.rotters to Cardiff. Once they came here we liked the place and he
:03:58. > :04:01.studied in Cardiff, so we had an orientation towards Cardiff. You
:04:02. > :04:09.have not told your wife about your student days? No. We can exploit
:04:10. > :04:14.that later. From Cardiff Bay be moved here to North Cardiff for a
:04:15. > :04:19.bigger house. Now we are thinking about starting a family. Since we
:04:20. > :04:26.like Cardiff with that we would settle here and find a bigger house
:04:27. > :04:32.and then work on our plans. Cardiff is great. When I was here all I knew
:04:33. > :04:39.about it was that it was a small city, but now it is growing across.
:04:40. > :04:47.Even for work, there are quite a lot of companies in Cardiff now compared
:04:48. > :04:51.to ten years ago. It is these growth pressures and housing shortages that
:04:52. > :04:55.have meant Cardiff councils had to give planning permission to
:04:56. > :05:03.thousands of new homes on green fields north, west and east of the
:05:04. > :05:07.city. There has been a slowing down of house-building and it is
:05:08. > :05:11.important that we inject some pace and to that, support the Welsh
:05:12. > :05:17.Government and delivering more housing. The latest figures suggest
:05:18. > :05:21.that 45,000 homes to be built in the next ten years in Cardiff. Cardiff
:05:22. > :05:33.is not alone. Big success. His everywhere by getting bigger. -- big
:05:34. > :05:40.successful cities are getting bigger everywhere. Economists say that our
:05:41. > :05:47.future is urban. When you get enough people and ideas rubbing up against
:05:48. > :05:51.each other, more growth happens. Andrew Carter heads up one of the
:05:52. > :05:56.UK's most influential think tank 's own cities. Because of the
:05:57. > :06:02.investment that many of our cities are made in terms of making them
:06:03. > :06:07.nicer places to live and spend time, workers want to live in the areas as
:06:08. > :06:13.well. Firms want to be there because they gain a lot and workers want to
:06:14. > :06:20.be there because the workers are there, but increasingly our cities
:06:21. > :06:24.are nice places to live. Cardiff has done well at attracting business and
:06:25. > :06:28.people. We have seen tens of thousands of new jobs that some
:06:29. > :06:37.other cities have done better, creating more highly paid employment
:06:38. > :06:44.and there are other challenges. Too many schools are underperforming and
:06:45. > :06:51.nearly a third of households in the city, over 41,000 homes, I deem to
:06:52. > :06:56.be living in poverty. -- are deemed to be. So the place has work to do
:06:57. > :07:02.but it has now caught on to something long perceived by one of
:07:03. > :07:08.its rivals, creating major urban design around major transport hubs.
:07:09. > :07:13.Large sections of the city centre will be transformed in the coming
:07:14. > :07:19.years by several major office developments, like this one, Central
:07:20. > :07:23.square. Paul McCartney is in charge of it, and new generation of
:07:24. > :07:30.modernising property developers. He's taken me around the new BBC
:07:31. > :07:34.world headquarters, which he says is key to Cardiff's regeneration. It is
:07:35. > :07:39.key to this location having the train station here the links Cardiff
:07:40. > :07:45.with the world. You can have a meeting here in the morning, get the
:07:46. > :07:48.11 a entry into Manchester in the studio by the afternoon. This has
:07:49. > :07:54.been a team effort from the beginning, the council have put
:07:55. > :07:58.their neck on the line to generate projects like this, funders and
:07:59. > :08:04.brought in hundreds of millions of pounds, and people like us are using
:08:05. > :08:10.our skills to allow the delivery of public- private sector partnerships.
:08:11. > :08:15.Some would say property developers in Cardiff have not always
:08:16. > :08:19.prioritise design quality, but when Paul McCarthy saw these images he
:08:20. > :08:26.decided Foster and Partners with the only ones for the BBC HQ.
:08:27. > :08:31.Architecture is very subjective. Some people like a certain building
:08:32. > :08:35.and some people hate it, that is the nature of architecture. This
:08:36. > :08:40.building shows a new face to the city for people arriving here for
:08:41. > :08:45.the first time, author people who come here every day to work and shop
:08:46. > :08:50.and want to be proud of the city. Cities have become more like
:08:51. > :08:54.businesses and like many in his world, Paul McCarthy sees them as
:08:55. > :08:59.competing in a beauty contest for international investment. We need
:09:00. > :09:03.people like Deutsche Bank who are relocating out of London's to
:09:04. > :09:08.Birmingham to take Cardiff seriously. But to take Cardiff
:09:09. > :09:10.seriously the need Cardiff to be on an architectural map and I think
:09:11. > :09:18.this development will start to do this. Cardiff needs to look good to
:09:19. > :09:24.attract business? Like you and me, it needs to look good to attract
:09:25. > :09:29.people. Paul is from Cardiff like me and he is passionate about the
:09:30. > :09:33.place, but I still have worries. If all the new work is in the centre
:09:34. > :09:39.and all the new homes in on the outskirts, how will people get
:09:40. > :09:43.between the two. How will 80,000 extra people get around the city.
:09:44. > :09:50.And without making the pollution worse. With buses and trains packed
:09:51. > :09:56.already, the council knows this will put more pressure on the roads. This
:09:57. > :10:05.route is already the most congested in Wales. The council says traffic
:10:06. > :10:10.will increase by a third, that means journeys will be extended by about
:10:11. > :10:14.seven minutes. And on routes like this, you can see how busy it is up
:10:15. > :10:23.Cathedral Road, the delays could be even worse. Do you think the traffic
:10:24. > :10:26.is getting worse? No doubt. Especially rush rush-hour, you
:10:27. > :10:36.always expected the taking your time on this road. -- especially during
:10:37. > :10:41.rush hour. There is concerned there will be more congestion have to
:10:42. > :10:46.developments like this. They are building a small town here and over
:10:47. > :10:53.20 years we will see 7000 homes, schools and leisure facilities. We
:10:54. > :10:57.are going to create 350 acres of open space and opportunities for
:10:58. > :11:01.people to live, work and play in this environment. This is a garden
:11:02. > :11:08.city that is going offered a great lifestyle for a lot of people. They
:11:09. > :11:13.are contributing ?28 million for transport here and in an agreement
:11:14. > :11:26.with the council called section one 06. People are walking, cycling and
:11:27. > :11:30.on buses in the pictures. The developers need to emphasise public
:11:31. > :11:35.transport is part of their so-called 50-50 vision. To find out what that
:11:36. > :11:39.means we went to the council HQ when the leader has just taken up the
:11:40. > :11:47.reins. We have to make sure the investment is there that we are
:11:48. > :11:51.delivering that. There is a contribution of 20,000,001 place to
:11:52. > :11:54.put infrastructure in place. We have to look at behaviour change and
:11:55. > :12:05.changing the way that people travel around the city. We are are
:12:06. > :12:08.targeting a 50-50 split. It is critical that we invest widely to
:12:09. > :12:14.Google 's options in front of people and encourage them given the option
:12:15. > :12:19.is to do that. The council wants to reduce car journeys to half of the
:12:20. > :12:24.total. I am eating a former planner who thinks that it is unrealistic.
:12:25. > :12:30.Cardiff has to grow but it has to do that in a more sustainable place
:12:31. > :12:33.than this, at least initially. This is in the countryside. Transport is
:12:34. > :12:37.very bad in this area. He studied the plans for elsewhere and thinks
:12:38. > :12:43.the Cardiff's new housing estates are going to make things worse
:12:44. > :12:46.before they get better. People do not like travelling by bus, they
:12:47. > :12:51.will only use public transport that it is better than a private car, it
:12:52. > :12:59.is reasonably priced and accessible. None of those things apply in this
:13:00. > :13:03.area. In nearby areas between 75-85% of people coming by car and I expect
:13:04. > :13:07.the same to happen here because it is a similar area and that is how
:13:08. > :13:15.people behave. The developers will need to provide cost barking Scott
:13:16. > :13:23.back parking places -- will need to provide car parking spaces. In
:13:24. > :13:30.Cardiff there are some sporadic bus lanes that just increase the
:13:31. > :13:37.congestion because they are not continuous and they cannot be
:13:38. > :13:42.because of obstacles in place. There is already serious congestion in the
:13:43. > :13:47.area at times. Most of these cars just have one passenger and there
:13:48. > :13:51.are not many cyclists or many pedestrians. Some bus lanes have
:13:52. > :13:56.been built but they disappear at bottlenecks. You can see how much
:13:57. > :14:02.the flames are needed whenever you get on a bus. I get up at 7am, get
:14:03. > :14:08.ready, have breakfast and I leave around ten to eight. I catch a bus
:14:09. > :14:14.from near my house to reach the office every day. This lady is one
:14:15. > :14:18.of 30,000 people in East Cardiff that does not have access to a
:14:19. > :14:24.railway station. Many take to the road with predictable results.
:14:25. > :14:29.Sometimes I get feed, sometimes they don't, it depends how busy it is. So
:14:30. > :14:33.from here to Newport Road it will be quite busy at this time of the day.
:14:34. > :14:41.Her bus goes past all the traffic bus lanes, but they often Peter out
:14:42. > :14:47.when the road narrows. It is ten to nine. I'm going to be late to work
:14:48. > :14:54.today. Hopefully not. She arrives five minutes late. Today the bus has
:14:55. > :15:00.taken more than an hour to travel for hours, -- to travel for miles,
:15:01. > :15:07.and that is the express. My dad used to work in this bus depot. This lady
:15:08. > :15:14.was the council to invest in more bus lanes. When there are bus lanes
:15:15. > :15:19.the journeys are quicker, so I think it is useful and it helps to keep
:15:20. > :15:27.the traffic moving. We have to have bus lanes and change our habits.
:15:28. > :15:34.Cynthia says that she needs 40% more buses to cope, so will the council
:15:35. > :15:39.give her the money? I would like more buses and bus lanes, I think
:15:40. > :15:43.they are effective. In terms of money, I am not going to commit in
:15:44. > :15:47.any particular scheme but that is desired a recognition that we need
:15:48. > :15:53.to invest in public transport means or you will be faced with gridlock.
:15:54. > :15:59.How do you get a bus lane through a place there is small? I'm not going
:16:00. > :16:05.to comment on any specific examples. Rest assured those rapid transit
:16:06. > :16:11.corridors have been identified with means to achieving them. The council
:16:12. > :16:15.says that they will encourage rather than forced to switch to public
:16:16. > :16:19.transport, but others think the opposite. They think this will to
:16:20. > :16:24.get people out of their cars and onto trains and buses, will that
:16:25. > :16:30.work? It will not work under the current plans which seem to be that
:16:31. > :16:32.they want to make the City Council driving around council such a
:16:33. > :16:39.horrible experience that people will be forced out of their cars and onto
:16:40. > :16:43.the buses. There is another way the council thinks that people in
:16:44. > :16:47.Cardiff could help meet its ambitious transport targets. It once
:16:48. > :16:56.one in five double journeys to be made by bicycle by 2026. Really? I
:16:57. > :17:02.am proud to say that I am a cyclist in Cardiff. I cycle regularly from
:17:03. > :17:06.home to work. I have had some scrapes along the way. The one thing
:17:07. > :17:28.I have learned is that cycling around Cardiff is not safe or easy.
:17:29. > :17:38.Where are you going? Regular cyclist said there are too many incidents
:17:39. > :17:43.like this and the city needs more safe cycle routes to separate them
:17:44. > :17:49.from motorists. I come with a cycling campaign. Cyclists are
:17:50. > :17:57.taking their lives into their own hands, being forced to share space
:17:58. > :18:00.with two tonne metal boxes in an environment that has been designed
:18:01. > :18:07.around motor traffic rather than human traffic. You tend to limit the
:18:08. > :18:12.diverse at your people riding bikes. The council has been working with
:18:13. > :18:15.Danish experts on a plan for a network of cycle lanes and other
:18:16. > :18:20.improvements. This is similar to what has happened in London. Cycling
:18:21. > :18:26.groups welcomed the plans in principle but it is also scepticism.
:18:27. > :18:31.Putting it into practice in implementing those changes will be a
:18:32. > :18:36.monumental challenge and far above anything that has ever happened in
:18:37. > :18:45.Cardiff before. I do think the council have been brave enough to
:18:46. > :18:50.claim priority from motor traffic. Evidence shows it is with segregated
:18:51. > :18:55.lanes like this, or when you eliminate traffic altogether, that
:18:56. > :19:02.you really bruised cycling. London spent ?17 a head on cycling
:19:03. > :19:07.facilities, Cardiff spends ?3. This is our only segregated bus lane, all
:19:08. > :19:13.80 metres of it. The council says there will be more safe routes and
:19:14. > :19:18.denies it cycling targets are unrealistic. As the administration
:19:19. > :19:23.develops we will be looking at what infrastructure interventions we need
:19:24. > :19:33.to make across the city to enable the transit of people on bikes into
:19:34. > :19:39.the city centre or across. More walking, more cycling, more buses we
:19:40. > :19:51.hope. Anything else? The Cardiff Underground. It opened two months
:19:52. > :20:02.ago. We are proud to announce the Cardiff Underground is officially an
:20:03. > :20:08.April fool. The man behind the prank and this map agrees that Cardiff
:20:09. > :20:13.needs a better transport network. It is a fantasy but if it existed it
:20:14. > :20:17.would be amazing. Cardiff is growing so we need a massive improvement in
:20:18. > :20:23.infrastructure. And worried about suburban development because they
:20:24. > :20:27.are expanding quickly and we might have to suck up there we are losing
:20:28. > :20:32.a little bit of Greenland, but I feel sorry for those people who will
:20:33. > :20:34.be living in these neighbourhoods without the infrastructure and
:20:35. > :20:41.public transport to get around Cardiff. Traffic is so bad on the
:20:42. > :20:48.roads already, what will it be like coming in in ten years? Real key
:20:49. > :20:53.knitters are well aware of the pressure already on the trains. It
:20:54. > :20:59.is predicted that will be an extra 7 million journeys a year into Cardiff
:21:00. > :21:05.by 2026, an increase of 50%. How will the network called? This could
:21:06. > :21:13.be the answer, the much topped about Metro. Trains are transcoding every
:21:14. > :21:18.15 minutes all linked up to buses. Supporters say it could be a game
:21:19. > :21:21.changer, creating more jobs in the ballets in relieving housing
:21:22. > :21:31.pressure on Cardiff full up new stations could help people get
:21:32. > :21:36.across the city, east to west. It is happening. Over ?700 million of
:21:37. > :21:43.investment in the city deal are committed to delivering the Metro.
:21:44. > :21:50.It will change how people get around Cardiff in South Wales. It is making
:21:51. > :21:55.growth equitable and making sure that the economic development of
:21:56. > :22:01.Cardiff drives a quality into the ballets as well. Will it make a
:22:02. > :22:06.difference in time for all the growth? The first phase should be
:22:07. > :22:10.completed in six years which should help with congestion coming into
:22:11. > :22:14.Cardiff from the ballets. But that is now use to commuters in the west
:22:15. > :22:19.east, the Metro for them is years off and they could be in for a
:22:20. > :22:26.difficult time. There is a long development process here going back
:22:27. > :22:29.years and years. I am impatient to get that into process as soon as
:22:30. > :22:36.possible and do what I can to make it happen. Funding public schemes
:22:37. > :22:41.and cities today is largely about council is doing deals and making
:22:42. > :22:48.the most of it. Billions of pounds are changing hands on Cardiff
:22:49. > :22:53.between landowners and developers. New council is cash-strapped, but as
:22:54. > :22:58.the planning authority it has power. As it used it well? We are not using
:22:59. > :23:03.the money on infrastructure first and then building the development at
:23:04. > :23:07.the words. We could ever have the assembly government to put the money
:23:08. > :23:11.up for that first and then built. We could have demanded more from the
:23:12. > :23:14.developers, but the developers need to extract a certain amount of
:23:15. > :23:19.return from their investment and there comes a point where they say
:23:20. > :23:22.that they could build another 400 houses here or put money into the
:23:23. > :23:29.highway and the 400 houses get built of the highway. Did we need more
:23:30. > :23:33.sharks and deal breakers on the council? It would've been useful if
:23:34. > :23:39.there was someone in their battling a little bit harder on the side the
:23:40. > :23:43.people who live here, but that is painting and extreme picture. The
:23:44. > :23:47.council has been accused of not being up to the job of negotiating
:23:48. > :23:55.with the private sector to get the best deals. I think it has been a
:23:56. > :23:58.strong partnership that will deliver for Cardiff. Others say it is time
:23:59. > :24:04.to give cities more power to finance the growth. When you look its cities
:24:05. > :24:09.on the continent of Europe or in North America, they are more
:24:10. > :24:12.empowered, they have more responsibilities, powers and
:24:13. > :24:16.financial leaders to be able to respond to the pressures that they
:24:17. > :24:20.have. We need to move towards a system where Cardiff and other UK
:24:21. > :24:31.cities are more empowered to make the decisions that will benefit
:24:32. > :24:35.their place and people. Cardiff's spectacular growth as a mark of that
:24:36. > :24:40.success, but the next few years could be a bumpy ride for its
:24:41. > :24:46.citizens. The city needs to keep building to provide homes they
:24:47. > :24:49.growing families can afford. If the place grows too fast without enough
:24:50. > :25:00.public transport, commuters will suffer even more. The challenge is
:25:01. > :25:06.to spread the benefits of growth to everyone, people living in the
:25:07. > :25:10.ballets and in Cardiff's deprived communities, and to make sure its
:25:11. > :25:14.citizens do not suffer at the cost of more congestion and a reduced
:25:15. > :25:18.quality of life. If Cardiff does not get that right, people will be at
:25:19. > :25:24.King who is all this growth actually for? -- people will be a thing who
:25:25. > :25:28.is all this growth actually for?