Clean Air Greater Manchester

Posted on 06/01/2022 10:59 by JVB66

I can see where you are coming from they have recently opened a new station north of Cambridge and are in the process of putting another south of the city to cater for the ever expanding housing developments both stations will have large car parks, as personal transport is still needed  to access them,

Cambridge has a very good public transport system with buses but as the boss of Stagecoach East says until the infrastructure is available by big upgrades, he cannot expand into a large EVbus fleet to enhance the system

Posted on 06/01/2022 11:33 by EmilysDad

 .... Cambridge has a very good public transport system with buses but ...

it might be very good, but it has THE most expensive Park & Ride we've ever used ... & it was the first time I'd seen or heard of a Bus-rail 🤔

Posted on 06/01/2022 11:45 by JVB66

It is a guided bus way  partly on the original rail route ,it has been beset with problems since first built at a cost far above what would have been to reinstate the railway ,the buses have additional guide wheels that steer the buses on a concrete road? Where the old railway track once was ,but they can also be used on public roads,

But costs for Cambridge P&Rs  are nearly  self financing where other cities are subsidised by the local tax payer

To cut costs and enhance the transport system   Sheffield. Trams can now run on the Heavy rail network in on certain routes under a special system that has been developed, ,which could have been better at Cambridge on the now bus way 

Posted on 06/01/2022 12:43 by EmilysDad

 ... It is a guided bus way  partly on the original rail route

I know now ... I've been on it 🙄. I thought P&R were to reduce cars from a city/town centre, not something to be argued about cost over. I later discovered it was cheaper & more convenient to drive into Cambridge & pay for parking which seemed to me to defeat the whole idea of a P&R, where ever it is.

Posted on 06/01/2022 13:39 by Whittakerr

It's Just been announced by the GM Mayor that the scheme is to be reviewed next week due to whinging businesses.  

Posted on 06/01/2022 13:39 by Whittakerr

It's Just been announced by the GM Mayor that the scheme is to be reviewed next week due to whinging businesses.  

Posted on 06/01/2022 14:55 by JohnM20

On the pretext of reducing air pollution and wanting to increase the use of public transport our city council has just declared that a very short road (about 100 yards long) is now a bus lane (which they have marked up as "Bus Gate", apparently not a legally recognised term) and cars are banned. At the end of the road is a council operated car park as well as the council offices and numerous businesses. To now get to these places involves a journey of in excess of 12 times greater in distance and twenty times longer in time taking the extra vehicles onto an already very congested ring road which invariably has long queues of traffic at the two sets of traffic lights encountered on the journey. How in heaven's name is that reducing air pollution?

For me to get to the businesses by public transport would involve three different buses and over an hour in journey time each way.