Pictures on social media showing the terrible state of railings along Mumbles Road have led to public appeals to restore and maintain the fencing.
The cast iron fencing alongside the road, which is used by thousands of drivers every day to get to and from the city centre and communities in the west of the city, appears to have been left to "rot away".
The fencing is along the edge of the King George V playing fields and also continues further down Mumbles Road towards Singleton Park, home to fields regularly used for football and rugby, alongside one of the city's favourite family parks.
Jeremy Douglas Jones shared a picture of the railings on a Facebook page questioning its poor condition and asking if others similarly thought work needed to be done to maintain and paint it.
Within the post, people seemed to unanimously agree that work was needed to repair the railings with many arguing it was "too late" for restoration work and instead it needed replacing entirely.
Mr Jones argued that "as a tourist destination Swansea should take care to present itself more favourably than rusty railings suggest".
Others argued it was "beyond repair" and highlighted that Mumbles Road was "worthy of more respectable fencing", indicating that the area was largely seen by tourists.
The vast majority of the railings in the area are heavily rusted, while parts of it are also badly damaged with some portions being either bent or missing entirely.
One cyclist who regularly uses the route argued that their path to work was "awful" with the fence "half falling down" and greenery growing into the cycle path, forcing people to adopt the pedestrian lane.
They added "I don't know how we can put our faith in the new cycle scheme when the council don't bother to maintain the ones we already have".
Other comments included questions surrounding council expenditure, with the recent free firework displays and Christmas parades being fresh on everyone's memory, and suggestions that money could have been spent elsewhere.
However, Swansea Council is only responsible for the fencing running east of Sketty Lane, alongside the boating lake, while the section west of the lane, alongside the playing fields, is in the care of Swansea University. Both sections are in a poor state.
A spokesperson for Swansea University said: "The railings that divide the university rugby pitches and the Mumbles Road immediately to the west of Sketty Lane are a university responsibility.
"It is our intention to maintain or replace these railings in the near future in conjunction with the development of the Swansea Bay Sports Park which, over the next 12 months, includes a new multi-use games area, enhanced floodlighting on the rugby pitches and a 3G pitch.
"A future phase is to deliver a covered seating and changing facility running parallel with Sketty Lane which may involve the removal of some of the railings."
A Swansea Council spokesperson said: “We’re undertaking a survey to establish what work needs to be done on sections we’re responsible for.”
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