Great Western Cities
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Great Western Cities (Welsh: Dinasoedd Mawr y Gorllewin) is a collaborative initiative launched in February 2015 by the cities of Bristol, in England, and Cardiff and Newport, in Wales, to improve cooperation in the area as a city region, and to develop economic and environmental partnerships.
The three cities are located on the Severn estuary and are linked by the M4 and M48 road bridges, and by rail via the Severn Tunnel. The joint initiative followed publication of a report in 2014, Unleashing Metro Growth, which proposed greater collaboration between cities and identified the Severn region as a ‘power-house city region’ critical to the UK economy as a whole.[1]