Transport
Planning and Development Minister tours growth sites in Cambridge region
Planning and Development Minister Nick Boles MP came to the Cambridge area last week on a fact finding mission to sites for thousands of new homes in the region, following confirmation that the government will be investing over a billion pounds in a major upgrade to the A14. This was a promise that had been […]
Campaign to reinstate Bedford to Cambridge railway link
Once upon a time there was an East-West railway linking Cambridge to Oxford. Nowadays, travellers wishing to make that journey have to travel via London, adding cost and time delay to the journey. The reinstatement of the direct link would be of immense benefit to the residents of Cambridge. There have been moves afoot to […]
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 […]
Transport On Demand
South Cambridgeshire District Council (SCDC) is proposing a new type of solution to meet the transport needs of our rural community. Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) or transport-on-demand as I like to call it, is ideal for people living in rural areas with limited or no access to conventional public transport. It aims to take passengers […]
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 […]