Cambridgeshire County
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lib Dems Fight To Reverse 25 Per Cent Allowance Increase
As I mentioned in my previous post on the 25 per cent pay increase that the County Councillors voted for last week, the game is not over yet. Cambridgeshire Liberal Democrats in a motion to Cambridgeshire County Council on December 7, will call for the increase in members’ allowances to be rescinded and the previous scheme […]
Cambridgeshire County Councillors award themselves 25% pay increase
County councillors in Cambridgeshire on Tuesday voted to give themselves a 25% rise in pay and allowances starting with immediate effect. The vote was carried by 33 to 29, with all but four of the Conservative Councillors voting for it, and all but one of the Liberal Democrat Councillors voting against it. The pay award […]
Government to review Guided Bus Policy
It was revealed yesterday that Government transport chiefs are to look at options for reviewing the guided bus policy and will “draw on the Cambridgeshire experience”. This came about following the call by the Cambridge City MP Julian Huppert, for a public enquiry into the guided bus scheme being built in Cambridge. . . The […]