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[email protected] · April 27th 17, 08:05 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
15:40:22 on Wed, 26 Apr 2017, remarked:

It's also made Trumpington a viable Park & Ride car park for Cambridge
station with route R, never thought of when the busway was planned and
first open.

A direct route was always in the original plan. Years of doing a
scenic tour of Addenbrookes was a cost saving measure.

Not the turning round at the station, avoiding all road traffic delays,
wasn't though.

Sure, it was suppose to be part of the longer through routes, but
those were supposed to have sufficient "bus priority measures".

Nobody thought of a busway Park & Ride shuttle until a bus company with a
bit of marketing go thought of the idea. Just as well it's not a
nationalised monopoly as some would have.

At present the southern section is grossly under-used with
nothing after 8pm or on Sundays.

You keep telling us the P&R is for shoppers, and not many of those
catered for historically that late, nor is the much going on a
Addenbrookes.

I have said no such thing. I have said that people staying most of the day,
at whom Park & Ride is aimed, often do shopping as well as other things like
tourism. You are the one falsely assuming rigid market segmentation that
doesn't exist.

The main reason why I think heavy rail would have been better is for
access to Cambridge station. We are hopeless at tram-train operation
in this country so, deciding ten years ago, it would be the only way
to get an uncongested north-south corridor across Cambridge. If were
doing tram-train with the aplomb shown on the continent then I agree
light rail would have been best.

IIRC the NIMBYs sabotaged through-running on account of it needing
widening of the rail corridor across Stourbridge Common.

That was an appalling idea. Calling the opposition NIMBYs shows you have
no respect for Cambridge's precious open spaces.

Competing environmentalists again. Losing a narrow strip of one of
Cambridge's numerous open spaces would have been a sensible
compromise.

Creating a separate right of way across Stourbridge Common would have been
extremely damaging, more than doubling the land take in the corridor. That
was why a solution using the existing right of way was far better.

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Colin Rosenstiel