Guided bus damaged by rising bollard

A guided bus belonging to Stagecoach was damaged on Saturday afternoon by a rising bollard close to the bus stop at New Square, Cambridge. The authorities are trying to establish whether the accident was caused by a fault with the bollard itself, or because the driver did not correctly follow the procedures.

There is a report in the Cambridge News here.

Bus tunnel plan for Cambridge

Those of us who use the guided busway are painfully aware of the delays cause by traffic conditions on the ordinary roads - mainly in central Cambridge, but also at times in St Ives.

Today, the Cambridge News has published an article about a £190 million scheme to explore  'innovative sub-surface solutions' to Cambridge's traffic problems.  This is a revival of an idea, first proposed in 2008, to build a network of tunnels under the city centre from Castle Hill to Coldham's Common. There would be underground bus stations a below Christ's Pieces and the Grafton Centre and possibly a link to the Railway Station.

It is reckoned that traffic delays cost businesses in Cambridge £1 billion a year.

The tunnel scheme is one possibility for trying to sort out Cambridge's transport problems  and Cambridgeshire County Council and Cambridge City Council are putting in a bid to the Government for funding.

Click here to read the article.