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.