Editing Rhayader (section)

== Transport ==
[[File:Rhayader station with local Mid-Wales line train geograph-2540449-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|[[Rhayader railway station|Rhayader station]] with a local [[Mid-Wales Railway]] train, 1949]]

The [[Rhayader railway station|station]] on the [[Mid-Wales Railway]] line that served the town was closed on 31 December 1962. The nearest station is now {{convert|9|mi|km|0|abbr=off}} away, at [[Pen-y-Bont railway station|Pen-y-Bont railway station, Crossgates]] on the [[Heart of Wales line]], though connections are usually made at the more accessible [[Llandrindod railway station]], a similar distance away.

A bus service connects with outlying villages and neighbouring towns, with two-hourly daytime departures to [[Builth Wells]], [[Llandrindod Wells]], Aberystwyth and [[Newtown, Powys|Newtown]], with connections to [[Hereford]], [[Shrewsbury]] and [[Cardiff]].

Due to the volume of traffic generated by the convergence of two [[trunk road]]s — the [[A44 road|A44]] and the [[A470 road|A470]] — the construction of a [[bypass (road)|bypass]] to relieve congestion at the town centre [[road junction|crossroads]] has been an ongoing debate for many years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shropshirestar.com/2006/10/16/trade-fears-over-bypass |title=Trade fears over bypass |author=Mike Sivier |work=[[Shropshire Star]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525211853/http://www.shropshirestar.com/latest/2006/10/16/trade-fears-over-bypass/ |date=16 October 2006 |archive-date=25 May 2011 |access-date=24 April 2013}}</ref>

The town is also a popular [[cycling]] centre and is on Route 8 of the United Kingdom [[National Cycle Network]], known in Welsh as {{lang|cy|[[Lôn Las Cymru]]}}, 'Wales' green lane'.