Archive for the Cambridgeshire County Category


Time to Design your own Local Bus Services

The County Council is committed to a three year phased programme of reducing the £2.7 million used to subsidise bus services. Cambridgeshire County Cabinet on the 6th March 2012 approved a programme of subsidy withdrawal which seeks to reduce the funding to £1.5m by 2014/15 in a more targetted manner, and groups the county into [...]

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Connecting Cambridgeshire by Faster Broadband

A county-wide broadband campaign to Get Cambridgeshire Connected has been launched through the Connecting Cambridgeshire website at www.connectingcambridgeshire.co.uk . This project has been set up by the County council  in a bid to get broadband services to all parts of the county that BT did not consider viable.   The plan is to provide access [...]

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Bus Subsidies – What Cambridgeshire County Want You To Know

Recently, we received the brief  below from the Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC) Passenger Transport Service, to inform about what CCC is doing with bus subsidies and the so called Cambridgeshire Future Transport (CFT) Project. Enjoy ….. __________________________________ Around 80 per cent of public transport in Cambridgeshire is run commercially with the remaining 20 per cent [...]

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SCDC cabinet fails to condemn County Council rural bus subsidy cuts

In an apparent contradiction of its aim of being a voice for rural  life and playing its part improving rural services including transport links, South Cambridgeshire District Council Cabinet has said it has no plans to make a corporate response to the ongoing consultation on the County Council cuts to rural bus subsidy. The statement [...]

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County Consultation Rural Bus Service Subsidies Removal

  Cambridgeshire County Council decided last municipal year, to remove rural bus service subsidies from all rural routes in the county, a decision that was bound to disturb the lives of those who depend on bus services to get out and about. The decision was taken without any consultation whatsoever with residents, and without due [...]

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