Cambridgeshire Guided Busway

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Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
Cambridge Busway Stagecoach Scania N230 Cropped.jpg
Guided busway during trials, 2009
Location Cambridgeshire
Proposer Cambridgeshire County Council
Website www.thebusway.info
Status Opened, 7 August 2011
cost estimate

£180.7m (2010)[1][2]

£161m+ (2010)[3][4]
£116.27m (2009)[5][6][7]
OpenStreetMap
164711
Geometry KML (in Google Maps)
Wheel-on-kerb method: on the guideway, small wheels touching the kerbs keep the buses in the centre and the bus driver lets go of the steering wheel.

The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway (CGB), branded the busway (but colloquially known as "the Guided Bus"), is a public transport scheme connecting the population centres of Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in the English county of Cambridgeshire. Planning and construction for the Cambridge-Huntingdon Rapid Transit Scheme (CHRT) took place during the 2000s finalising in a decision to develop a 25-mile (40 km) transport corridor consisting of road improvements, bus lanes and bus priority measures, of which 16 miles (25 km) is dedicated and exclusive-use guided busway.[8]

The guided sections are notable for their length; making the scheme the longest operational guided busway in the world,[8][9] overtaking the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia.[5][10][11] Specially adapted buses are used—on the busway the bus driver does not need to hold the steering wheel as the concrete guideway controls the direction that the bus travels.

The reserved bus-only sections make up 16 miles (25 km) of the route, and are in two parts, one either side of the centre of Cambridge. The northern length of dedicated busway runs parallel to the A14 road, using the course of the Cambridge and Huntingdon railway that closed to passengers in 1970 and runs through the former railway stations at Oakington, Long Stanton and Histon. A southern section connects Cambridge railway station, Addenbrooke's Hospital and the park and ride site at Trumpington.

Construction began in March 2007 with an intended opening date of April 2009. Following a number of delays, an independent review was announced on 21 September 2010,[12][13] while Cambridge MP Julian Huppert described the project as a "white elephant".[14] The original cost estimate of £150 million rose to to £181 million by December 2010.[1]

The busway was handed over to the County Council in April 2011 and opened on 7 August 2011. It forms part of the system of transport in Cambridge and the latest in a list of guided busways and BRT systems in the United Kingdom.[9]

Based on contracts signed with the promoters, Cambridgeshire County Council, bus services are operated by Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire and Whippet Coaches who collectively have exclusive use of the route for a period of five years—in exchange for providing a minimum service frequency between the times of 07:00 and 19:00 each week day.[15]

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[edit] Overview

Cambridgeshire Guided Busway network between Huntingdon (top-left) and Cambridge (bottom-right)

The scheme links the city of Cambridge, in East Anglia, with St Ives, Huntingdon and Northstowe (a proposed new town) to the north-west, and with the M11 motorway to the south. The route includes two sections of guided operation, a bus-only road and other places with on-street operation in conventional bus lanes. New park and ride sites have been built at Longstanton and at St Ives, with a tarmac cycle track/bridleway provided alongside some sections of the route.[15] The final scheme includes bus priority and real-time passenger information system displays at busway bus stops.

It is estimated that 11,500 journeys a day will be made on the busway.[16] The scheme is predicted to cause a direct reduction in traffic on the busy parallel A14 road of 5.6% (rising to 11.1% with the new Park & Ride sites), although as other traffic re-routes to the freed-up road space from other parts of the local road network, the actual net reduction on the A14 is predicted to be 2.3%. The overall scheme is "not intended to solve the congestion problems on the A14" by itself, but will rather have an overall effect across the local road network, and be complementary to the planned road improvements on the A14.[17]

[edit] Planning

In 2001 the Cambridge-Huntingdon Multi-Modal Study (CHUMMS) recommended widening of the A14 road and building of a guided busway along the old Cambridge and Huntingdon railway,[18] which had been closed to scheduled passenger rail traffic since 1970 and to all traffic since 1993.[19] Since closure there had been proposals to reinstate a conventional rail service, and variously for a light railway network, a bus lane, a road with limited access, a bus-way, a cycle path and a nature walk.[19] A local group, CAST.IRON, was set up in July 2003 (after being inspired by the Wensleydale Railway) to promote and undertake reinstatement of the route for conventional rail services and to resist other proposals, referring to the guided bus as the 'misguided bus'.[20] A private consortium that had proposed a guided bus scheme, SuperCAM, abandoned their plans in 2003.[21] Arup prepared the Transport and Works Act (TWA) application presented in late 2003.[22][23]

A public inquiry was held into the successful proposal in September–October 2004. The scheme was supported by five bus and coach operators, and twenty other organisations and individuals.[24] A total of 2,735 objections were received:[25] from local councils, public bodies, transport interests, local pressure groups and individuals who criticised the Environmental Impact Assessment, supported the rail alternative or objected to the scheme in principle.[26] The scheme was approved by the Government in December 2005.[27][28]

[edit] Construction

In March 2007, the then Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander officially opened a manufacturing plant at Longstanton that would produce the 6,000–7,000 concrete beams for the guided bus route between St Ives and Cambridge.[29][30] Each beam was 350 millimetres thick with a further 180-millimetre lip for the glide wheels to press against.[30] A total of 50,000 tonnes of concrete was cast to a precision of plus or minus one millimetre.[30] Supports below the beams were under-pinned by 2,150 piles along a 2.5 miles (4 km) length of the busway.[31]

In the same year a new viaduct constructed of maintenance-free steel was built over the River Great Ouse as a replacement for a previous long-standing 200-tonne wrought-iron railway viaduct removed in 2007.[32][33] There would later be a dispute between the Conservative-controlled County Council and opposition Liberal Democrat councillors as to whether the structure was structurally sound,[34] with a claim that water draining off the track over the viaduct could lead to crumbling.[35]

Construction work underway near Histon, Cambridgeshire in 2008.

In March 2008 existing guided vehicles were trialled along a section near Oakington.[36][37] The vehicles tested included a Wrightbus-bodied single-decker owned by FirstGroup, a Plaxton President-bodied Dennis Trident 2 double-decker from Lothian Buses, and a white Alexander Dennis Enviro500 triple-axled double-decker. The test vehicles were fitted with sensors to assess vibration levels and ride quality. Hot weather testing of the track took place during May/June 2010.[38][39] In addition to the bus fleet, Cambridgeshire County Council themselves trialled and purchased a specially adapted gritter lorry for use during periods of cold weather, which will spray salt water rather than rock salt.[40][41][42][43][44]

By August 2008 approximately 6 miles (10 km) of the busway had been constructed, between Longstanton and Milton Road (Science Park).[citation needed] On 30 November 2009, road signs directing traffic from the A14 towards the future busway park and ride sites started to be installed.[45] Other signage related to the busway had required subsequent height adjustments,[46] and spelling corrections.[47][48][49][50][51] Trees had also blown over, blocking the busway route near Swavesey.[52] The twelve junctions on the route fitted with bus priority traffic signals were tested on 16 December 2010 and worked as expected.[53][54][55]

[edit] Delays

Concrete beam construction of the main busway route. An estimated 6,000 to 7,000 concrete beams were made for the busway.

In January 2009 it was announced that the scheduled opening of the scheme had been delayed until late summer 2009 owing to bad weather and flooding in the Fen Drayton area. As a result of complications with a bridge at Hills Road in Cambridge, traffic restrictions there continued throughout the summer of 2009.[56] Flooding and drainage issues affected the limestone-covered cycleway during late 2009[57] and early 2010.[58]

In August 2009 a further delay until late November 2009 was announced for the busway to start carrying passengers on the northern section, with no date given for the opening of the southern section.[59][60][61]

On 16 November 2009 the project was delayed for the third time when Cambridgeshire County Council announced that the northern section of the busway would not open on the previously advertised date of 29 November 2009.[62] An opening date of "the end of the year" 2009 for the northern section was announced later in the same month,[63] followed four days later by "hopefully in the new year [2010]".[46] Initial busway services would only reach Huntingdon railway station and not serve Hinchingbrooke Hospital as had originally been promoted during the public inquiry;[64] neither would they continue southwards to Cambridge railway station.

2010

In January 2010, the contractors and members of Cambridgeshire County Council were still in discussion about what required finishing.[65] During February 2010 the directors of both the signed up bus operators—Andy Campbell of Stagecoach in Cambridge, and Peter Lee of Whippet coaches—both expressed their companies' frustrations at the busway not being usable for the new buses they had bought to run on it.[66] Shortly afterwards Stagecoach altered the slogan displayed on their fleet of buses for the busway, changing it from reading "I'll be on the busway soon, will you?" to a new slogan of "Will I be on the busway soon?".[67][68][69] In the same month, South Cambridgeshire District Council demanded of Cambridgeshire County Council a comprehensive public statement giving clarity over rising costs.[70] In mid-June 2010, none of the listed outstanding issues had been fixed[71] and a public review was announced.[72]

At the start of July 2010, it was reported that that neither section of the busway would open before 2011;[73] the bus operators Stagecoach in Cambridge and Whippet reacted to the news angrily, suggesting that the operators might seek to reduce the minimum level of service that had been previously committed to.[74] At a council meeting on 9 July 2010, a decision was taken to concentrate on completion of the southern section in order to get the whole route opened, rather than aiming for a phased introduction.[75] During late September 2010 the contractor, BAM Nuttall, missed deadlines for providing construction certificates needed by the Council, forcing Cambridgeshire County Council to begin their own inspections.[76]

[edit] Opening

A Stagecoach Route B bus prepares to depart from St Ives to Cambridge on the launch day 7 August 2011.

On 21 April 2011 the busway was officially handed over to Cambridgeshire County Council, triggering a 28-day period for any remedial works be undertaken by BAM Nuttall.[77] This period expired without BAM Nuttall having completed any of the required work. The County Council contracted Jackson Civil Engineering to finish the busway, at BAM Nuttall's expense, with a view to opening the busway in August 2011.[78] The County Council served a legal notice against BAM Nuttall that they were not willing to pay the cost of the budget overrun.[79]

A number of preview trials of the Busway were held, during which some problems were encountered, particularly with cyclists using the busway track.[80] In one incident a cyclist cycling on the guide beams, rather than the cycle path next to the busway, was struck by a bus coming in the opposite direction.[81] Trials of recovery procedures should a bus break down were also held, with the test finding that a stranded bus could be connected up and removed within five to ten minutes of a specially-adapted breakdown vehicle reaching the scene of the incident.[82] During one preview journey held for journalists on 28 July 2011, Hugh Morris of the Cambridge First newspaper staged a race between the guided bus and a car travelling from Cambridge to St Ives to see which was quickest to reach the end of the track. The car beat the bus by ten minutes, although he noted that the trip had not been held during rush-hour, during which the A14 road is noted for congestion.[83] A journey from St Ives to the Cambridge Science Park was found to take 20 minutes.[8]

The busway and cycle track officially opened to the public on 7 August 2011.[8][84] The first guided bus left St Ives at 09:00 after the busway had been officially opened by Andrew Lansley MP.[85] In the first seven days, a total of 55,895 trips were made on the busway,[86] leading to the operators providing additional buses on their services.[87] Over the first four weeks the average was 52,227 journeys (224,054 total).[88][89][90] Footfall and trade at businesses in the villages increased as a result,[91] with the same increase reported by market traders and shopkeepers in St Ives[92] As a bridleway, horse riders can also use the maintenance track adjacent to the northern guided section providing a traffic-free route between the villages.[93]

Work began at the end of July 2011 on improving the park and ride facilities at Longstanton. Construction work included a £430,000 passenger waiting room and exhibition centre (for the adjacent Northstowe development).[94] On 12 January 2012, the Guided Busway celebrated its one millionth passenger.[95]

[edit] Route

[ ]
Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
Track turning from left Transverse track Transverse track Continuation to left
East Coast Main Line
Interchange on track + Hub
Unknown BSicon "uINTa" + Hub
Huntingdon railway station National Rail
Continuation forward Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE"
Huntingdon street running
Unknown BSicon "uLSTRrg" + Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE"
 Unknown BSicon "uLUECKEq" Urban continuation to left
Somersham street running
Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE"
St Ives street running
Urban station on track + Hub
Unknown BSicon "PARKING" + Hub
St Ives park and ride
Urban bridge over water
St Ives Viaduct (River Great Ouse)
Urban stop on track
Fen Drayton Lakes
Urban station on track
Swavesey
Unknown BSicon "PARKING" + Hub
Urban station on track + Hub
Longstanton park and ride
Unknown BSicon "uexBS2+l" Unknown BSicon "uBS2+r"
Unknown BSicon "uexBHF" Urban straight track
Northstowe proposed development
Unknown BSicon "uexBS2l" Unknown BSicon "uBS2r"
Urban station on track
Oakington
Urban station on track
Histon and Impington
Waterway under major road
A14 road
Waterway turning from left Unknown BSicon "uABZrf"
Urban station on track Urban straight track
Orchard Park East
Urban station on track Urban straight track
Orchard Park West
Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE" Urban station on track
Cambridge Regional College
Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE" Urban station on track
Cambridge Science Park
Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE" Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE"
Cambridge street running
Unknown BSicon "uLSTRlf"
Unknown BSicon "uLSTRlg" + Unknown BSicon "uLUECKE"
 Track turning from left Continuation to left
to North and East
Unknown BSicon "uINT" + Hub
Interchange on track + Hub
Cambridge railway station National Rail
Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu" Unknown BSicon "AKRZu"
Hills Road
Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu" Unknown BSicon "AKRZu"
Long Road
Unknown BSicon "uJUNCld" Unknown BSicon "mKRZu" Unknown BSicon "uKBHFr"
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cutting start + Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu"
 Straight track
Shelford Road
Unknown BSicon "CUT legende" + Unknown BSicon "ueFEEDER"
 Straight track
Trumpington Cutting (single track)
Cutting end + Unknown BSicon "uAKRZu"
 Straight track
Hauxton Road
Unknown BSicon "PARKING" + Hub
Urban End station + Hub
 Straight track
Trumpington park and ride
Continuation forward
to London

Starting at Huntingdon railway station and town centre, buses travel on normal roads to St Ives. From here the busway follows the path of the former Cambridge and Huntingdon railway to a new park and ride site south of the town, where it becomes guided. The buses stop at Swavesey, Longstanton, Oakington and Histon, with a request stop for the nature reserve at Fen Drayton. Should a proposed new town at Northstowe be built, further stops would be opened.

Upon entering Cambridge the route diverges. One route has stops at Cambridge Regional College and Cambridge Science Park, before the bus route rejoins the road network to travel into central Cambridge. The other joins the road network at Orchard Park (formerly Arbury Park), before continuing to the city centre. The two forks converge at Cambridge bus station for the journey to Cambridge railway station. Beyond Cambridge railway station the buses are again guided using the trackbed and structures of the former Cambridge-Oxford railway (The Varsity Line) to travel south to Addenbrooke's Hospital and Trumpington Park and Ride. This section last saw a scheduled passenger train in 1967.[96]

[edit] Infrastructure

The busway is designed for buses travelling at 55 miles per hour (90 km/h), slowing to 30 miles per hour (50 km/h) where it crosses public highways.[25] Guidance is achieved using the guidewheel-on-concrete-kerb method, with the busway being constructed from pre-cast concrete sections that are 15 metres (49 ft) long and 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) wide.[97] Additionally, the guide wheels will aid close positioning at slightly modified bus stops within the on-street sections.[98]

The dedicated bus busway is 6 metres (20 ft) wide consisting of two 2.6-metre wide busways separated by a central reservation of 800 millimetres (31 in). Between Cambridge and St Ives there is also a 4-metre (13 ft) wide (maximum) cycleway/footpath/maintenance track to one side and a 700-millimetre (28 in) evacuation strip to the other creating a total width of 10.7 metres (35 ft). Where necessary it is narrower; for example through the Trumpington cutting where there is a single busway with a narrower maintenance-only track giving a total width of approximately 6.3 metres (21 ft).[25] In 2010, proposals were made to reduce the width of the cycletrack, narrowing it down to 3 metres and increasing the height in order to combat flooding.[99] Elevated sections have two evacuation strips at busway level with the cycletrack/footpath/maintenance track at the base of the embankment.[citation needed]

The 6-metre (20 ft) width of the bus busway is narrower than the 9.3-metre (31 ft) width of a single carriageway rural all-purpose road built to 2009 standards (excluding attendant verges and footpaths/cyclepaths in both cases).[100] A conventional road would have been too wide for the busway itself to fit on top of the narrower existing railway embankments and across the under-bridges along parts of the route.[101] The required maintenance track is fitted either adjacent to the busways on flat land, or to one side at the foot of the former railway embankments—the combined width of the maintenance track and two busways being considerably wider than that of the railway it had replaced. To negotiate Trumpington Cutting on the southern section, a narrower maintenance track was required, along with the use of a bi-directional single track busway in order to fit within the width of the former double track railway line.[102] The southern section will be restricted to use by single decker buses.[102]

[edit] Services

Two operators, Stagecoach[103] and Whippet Coaches, committed to buying new buses and running commercial services on the scheme. The council had previously held talks with Cavalier (Huntingdon and District) and another operator.[104] As with all other UK busway schemes in the privatised bus industry, Cambridgeshire County Council owns the infrastructure, and will allow private bus operators to use it on their registered services, subject to quality contracts specifying vehicle and service standards. During peak hours of 07:00–19:00 operators are charged for using the busway.[15]

Stagecoach Route B bus travelling from Cambridge on the first full day of service on The Busway, 7th August 2011.
A Go Whippet Route C bus leaving St Ives on 7th August 2011.

Seven buses per hour run on the core northern section between St Ives and Cambridge Science Park during the day, reduced to hourly services in the evenings and on Sundays. Figures originally published during 2004 by Cambridgeshire County Council proposed that it would begin operation with six services per hour and work up to twenty services per hour into Cambridge during peak periods by 2016.[105]

Routes A and B

Stagecoach run services on Routes A and B between St Ives and Cambridge, with extensions to Huntingdon railway station. The journey time for Routes A and B from St Ives bus station to the Cambridge Science Park are 23 minutes plus an additional 15 minutes into Cambridge city centre, meaning journey times of roughtly 38 minutes in total.[106] Stagecoach's previous three-times per hour Service 55 between Cambridge and St Ives had been timetabled as taking 30–37 minutes.[107] The promoters of the scheme predicted that journey times via the busway route might be more consistent and reliable, due to buses avoiding the busy A14 road.[105]

To operate their services, Stagecoach ordered ten Eclipse/B7RLE single decker buses, to be manufactured by Wrightbus and Volvo, and ten Alexander Dennis Enviro400/Scania N230UD double deckers for the guided busway network. All of the new specially-branded vehicles are equipped with leather seats, air chill or air conditioning, real time information, and free Wi-Fi.[103] The new fleet of buses were deployed on Stagecoach's other services prior to the opening of guided sections of the busway, having cost the operator a total of £3 million[66] plus £1 million in staffing and training costs.[74]

Less than a month after opening, Stagecoach announced that the Sunday service would be increased to three buses per hour to St. Ives, up from the original one per hour. One Sunday service per hour would also continue to Huntingdon.[108]

Route C

Whippet Coaches operate Route C from Somersham to Cambridge centre using a mixture of rural roads, Cambridge city centre roads and the northern busway between the St Ives park and ride site and the outskirts of Cambridge. Journey time from Somersham to Cambridge city centre is scheduled to take 57 minutes, with no Sunday service.[109] Whippet spent a total of £420,000 on three buses (£140,000 each).[66] Less than a month after opening Whippet announced that they would adjust their sporadic Sunday service between Cambridge and Somersham, increasing it up to one service per hour.[108]

[edit] Ticketing

When travelling on the busway section, passengers are required to purchase their tickets before boarding[110] from one of seventeen ticket issuing machines compatible with ITSO smartcards.[111] Cambridgeshire Country Council stated that multi-operator ticketing would be supported, allowing passengers to board the first bus that arrived—stating that such a ticket would be a first, but would take a while to perfect. Single tickets from one operator will not be valid on another operator's bus, but a multi-operator smartcard can be purchased.[112]

[edit] Construction costs

Construction of the bridge over the railway line near Addenbrooke's Hospital, September 2008.

The project was budgeted to cost £116.2 million,[113] with central government providing £92.5 million of the money.[114] Cost-benefit analysis of the scheme had variously assessed the expected ratio as 4.84,[115] 2.28 (1998 prices)[25] and 1.968,[115] (a higher ratio is better), with the cost rising from an initial estimate of £54 million.[115] In December 2008, the County Council assessed the financial risks of the project as "high"; None of the £12.7 million funding—out of £23.7 million—due to come from property developers had been received by the promoters.[116] In November 2009 the backers of the "cb1" redevelopment scheme around the Cambridge railway station frontage, Ashwell Property Group, had been due to make their £927,000 contribution towards the busway scheme, but were given permission to defer; and entered administration in December 2009.[117] The taxpayer was expected to have to make up any funding shortfall.[116] Cambridgeshire County Council announced it was budgeting £1 million per year to cover potential ongoing costs associated with the busway,[7][118] through the reorganisation of other transport related budgets.[119]

Repayments for the loans and associated interest would then be recovered from the contractors and future housing developers after the scheme had been completed.[3] Contributions from developers were additionally used to cover the cost of providing artworks and time capsules along the route.[120][121]

[edit] BAM Nuttall

The busway between Oakington and Longstanton. The cycle path is visible on the left of the image.

The contractor, BAM Nuttall, claimed that it would cost more than the original budgeted amount to finish the work,[122] perhaps £6 million more.[123] Another report[124] suggests that the overrun could be £30 million on a construction cost of £90 million. Cambridgeshire County Council stated that it had been confident that the scheme would come in on budget, owing to the terms of its contract with BAM Nuttall.[125] By December 2009, the project had been forecasted to be £1.3 million over budget,[7][118][120] the Council's extra liabilities being limited to £5 million over the originally agreed price[126]—with the right to impose penalties upon the contractors for late delivery;[127] since February 2009, the contractors had been amassing a fine of £14,000 per day for late delivery,[66][128] amounting to £6 million by June 2010[129] and estimated in December 2010 to be £9 million.[130] On 29 January 2010, Cambridgeshire County Council's head of audit and risk management stated that uncertainty over the final construction price had been causing cash flow issues for the council.[131]

The County Council's performance bond with BAM Nuttall was limited to £7.5 million plus a further "unlimited guarantee" from Koninklijke BAM Groep, BAM Nuttall's parent company based in The Netherlands.[132]

The original price agreed for the engineering works conducted by BAM Nuttall had been £88 million—estimates in mid-February 2010 projected cost-runs on the Nuttall contract to have increased to £120–140 million.[133] The main issue was structural repairs necessary to the new Great Ouse Viaduct in order to prevent water ingress.[133] Later that month Cambridgeshire County Council stated that the council was due to borrow £41 million during 2010 and then £10.2 million the year after, payable to BAM Nuttall in order to complete the project.[3]

[edit] Atkins

Cambridgeshire County Council brought in Atkins as consultants to manage the project. Following the delivery delays, Atkins' bill for services had increased from an expected £2.9 million to £9.6 million.[134][135][136][137] The cost of this would be offset by the £10.8-million fine imposed on BAM Nuttall over the same time-period.[137]

[edit] Future proposals

As of January 2010 suggestions had been made for its expansion at a later date.

[edit] Chesterton railway station

Main article: Chesterton railway station

Should development of the proposed Chesterton railway station in north Cambridge close to the A14 and science park go ahead, Cambridge County Council has proposed diverting the busway via the new station. Any work would be part of a major £500 million funding bid from the Government's Transport Innovation Fund[138] coupled to the introduction of Congestion Charging schemes. Passenger interchange at Chesterton could then provide access to direct London and Ely mainline railway services.[139]

Campaign group CAST.IRON has written to the government as a formal response to Department for Transport's consultation in the Greater Anglia rail franchise[140] and proposed a new north Cambridge station adjacent to Milton Road and close to the end of the section of guided busway, instead of the proposed Chesterton station.

[edit] Southern extensions

By June 2010, BAM Nuttall was predicting that it hoped to have the originally planned southern sections to Trumpington and Addenbrooke's Hospital opened by December 2010.[141] Cambridgeshire County Council has proposed extending the busway beyond each of the Addenbrooke's Hospital and Trumpington Park and Ride termini. Funding would be part of the same Transport Innovation Fund proposals.[138]

[edit] Other proposals

In connection with the Chesterton diversion, the CamLink consortium have proposed a new busway route from the centre of Cambridge, continuing past a future Chesterton station to Waterbeach.[142] CamLink is a proposal developed by RLW Estates which is a consortium of The Royal London Group, Turnstone Estates and St John's College.[143]

CamToo, a transport scheme developed by a separate set of local interest groups,[144] has also offered proposals for further expansion of the guided busway network including:[145]

  • Extension beyond the Milton Road junction, crossing Milton Road to Barnwell Bridge, continuing along the railway alignment already used.
  • New access routes to and from the A14 road to enable buses coming from Bar Hill and Cambourne to gain access to the northern guided section of the busway and its bridge under the A14 road.
  • A new bridge under the A14 dual carriageway to enable buses serving Milton, including a new Park and Ride site, to avoid the busy Milton Road / A14 roundabout.
  • Conversion of bus lanes on Newmarket Road to "tramway" style (bus lanes moved into the centre of the road with right-turns across the bus lanes prevented for normal traffic).
  • Extension beyond the Addenbrooke's Hospital terminus, connecting to the A1303 Babraham Road
  • Extension beyond the Trumpington Park and Ride terminus, further along the course of the old Bedford railway line until reaching the B1046 between Barton and Comberton.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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