In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at 12:23:25
on Mon, 27 Jun 2011, remarked:

The Cambridge Guided Bus was also "sold" on the basis of having a
similar trendy looking bendy bus in the fliers - but once it was
approved the promoters backpedalled and said that they never
intended to imply it would have anything other than normal buses.
Yeah, right.

To be fair, that was a change of promoters. Cambridgeshire County
Council have never sold the scheme on the basis of bendy buses.

So who was it produced the documents in question. Weren't they
circulated around the time of the infamous "would you like high
quality transport" questionnaire?

I have to admit I've forgotten who they were. I know it wasn't the
County Council because those other people upset my constituents big
time by proposing various road alterations close to Drummer Street that
the County knew nothing about.

The incursion into Christ's Pieces to give more room for turning. That
was a bunch called "SuperCAM" - see September 2002 thread "Fears over
6ft city buses".

The story seems to start in July 2002 - or is that typo for 2003?:


http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Camb...-bid-for-Super
CAM-cash.htm

"CAMBRIDGESHIRE'S bid for a mammoth cash hand-out to build a new
rapid transit system was being sent off to the Government today.
The county has carried out a study into re-opening the former
Cambridge-St Ives railway line as a route for guided buses."

And in July 2003, Council minutes report that SuperCam have abandoned
the scheme leaving the County as sole candidate.

Then in August 2003 (another typo? see Sept 2002 above):


http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home...-from-guided-b
us-plan.htm

"The plan is for a transport system that will run along the old
Cambridge St-Ives railway line using tram-like guided buses. The
£70 million SuperCam scheme, proposed by a consortium led by
Stagecoach and developers Gallagher, is expected to be up and
running by 2006."

A picture of the bendy-tram (with OHL!):

http://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/38/article8.html

They've been anti-guided bus ever since, even though
it will barely affect them if at all. The County denied all knowledge
of the original promoters with bendies and started their own proposals
some time later.

We need to get the dates sorted out before making a firm comment on
that.

Who cares the exact dates. They faltered, just as Gallaghers have at
Northstowe.

--
Colin Rosenstiel