Regular users of the busway will be aware that the buses don't run every 7-8 minutes as they are supposed to. A whole lot of delays occur, usually as a result of road conditions elsewhere.
There is a good example in this week's Hunts Post (11 December, page 11). It's about parked cars blocking Cowper Road, Huntingdon, a small residential street that, because of Huntingdon's one-way street system forms part of the westbound Busway B route. The photo shows 4 Bs waiting to get through. That's an hour's worth of buses! OK, they're westbound, but that means their return journeys towards Cambridge will subsequently be delayed.
Another example is North Road, St Ives, which is the main route for all A B & C buses - the road is narrow enough that a bus cannot pass any other vehicle coming in the opposite direction. It wouldn't take a lot to widen it - tho' a few car parking spaces might be lost...
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