Stagecoach has published its new timetable for routes A and B due to start from 23 July. Timetable posted here.
Early morning journey from Somersham and Chatteris continue to be available, and a couple of new early morning services run from Ramsey and Warboys to Cambridge. There are similar return journeys to these places in the evening.
There are two buses an hour to Hinchingbrooke Hospital and one an hour to Peterborough.
Huntingdon Railway Station is served by only one bus an hour, but, of course, the Hinchingbrooke services stop on Brampton Road just outside the Station.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Pedestrian shortcut from busway to Cambridge Station
The Cambridge News reports that a steps are to be built linking the Hills Road Bridge with the guided busway path below. This will provide a pedestrian shortcut to/from Cambridge Rail Station. Due to the constricted site, a cycle path cannot be provided, but there will be a channel beside the steps allowing cyclists to wheel their bikes. Cambridgeshire County Council has voted £500,000 for the project.
Nature and the busway
As a regular traveller between St Ives and Cambridge, I have been amazed and inspired by the magnificent display of wild flowers on the busway verges - ox eye daisies, poppies, mullein, mallow, Queen Anne's Lace to name a few of the more prominent species. Now many of the flowers have reached the seeding stage, and in the last few days the verges adjacent to the tracks have been trimmed. But the untrimmed areas further from the bus tracks are still looking glorious.
Evidently some residents of Orchard Park feel that these colourful verges are simply 'weeds'. See report by Chris Havergal in the Cambridge News. The comments posted on the newspaper's website about this are interesting. There seems to be a split between those who think the 'weeds' are a blot on the landscape, and those who welcome these lush verges as a haven for wildlife.
Evidently some residents of Orchard Park feel that these colourful verges are simply 'weeds'. See report by Chris Havergal in the Cambridge News. The comments posted on the newspaper's website about this are interesting. There seems to be a split between those who think the 'weeds' are a blot on the landscape, and those who welcome these lush verges as a haven for wildlife.
Sunday, 8 July 2012
New bus stop in Station Road, St Ives
Work has begun on creating a new bus stop in Station Road, St Ives. This is intended to ease congestion in St Ives Bus Station and means that Cambridge-bound buses on Routes A and B won't have to loop around the bus station. The stop will project out into Station Road at the front of Coral betting shop and the Hyperion auction house. The site of the bus stop has now been marked on the roadway.
Progress at end of Day 1 of works (9 July) - a conduit has been installed across the road, possibly for electric supply to the new bus stop.
End of Day 2 (10 July) - bus stop kerb has been partly built - temporary traffic lights were in operation, causing traffic congestion and delays to buses to and from the Bus Station.
Day 3 (11 July) - congestion during construction work
End of Day 3 (11 July) - kerb round new bus stop is almost complete.
End of Day 4 (12 July) - no visible progress today, as far as I can see.
End of Day 5 (13 July) - nothing seems to have happened today either, which is worrying as the new bus service is due to start in just over a week.
End of Day 6 (16 July) - the new bus stop now has its base layer of tar. A sign saying 'Temporary Bus Stop' has appeared, which perhaps suggest that the buses will start calling there before work has been completed.
End of Day 7 (17 July) - two bollards and a post which will perhaps carry the bus stop sign have been erected.
End of Day 8 (18 July) - no visible progress on the bus stop today.
End of Day 9 (19 July) - no further work
today.
End of Day 10 (20 July) - the bus stop has now been marked out on the road in yellow, but the final tar surface of the bus stop has not been laid, and there is still a temporary sign in place. There is no shelter for waiting passengers.
For more information about the bus stop, see blog post dated 20th July. Click here.
Progress at end of Day 1 of works (9 July) - a conduit has been installed across the road, possibly for electric supply to the new bus stop.
End of Day 2 (10 July) - bus stop kerb has been partly built - temporary traffic lights were in operation, causing traffic congestion and delays to buses to and from the Bus Station.
Day 3 (11 July) - congestion during construction work
End of Day 3 (11 July) - kerb round new bus stop is almost complete.
End of Day 4 (12 July) - no visible progress today, as far as I can see.
End of Day 5 (13 July) - nothing seems to have happened today either, which is worrying as the new bus service is due to start in just over a week.
End of Day 6 (16 July) - the new bus stop now has its base layer of tar. A sign saying 'Temporary Bus Stop' has appeared, which perhaps suggest that the buses will start calling there before work has been completed.
End of Day 7 (17 July) - two bollards and a post which will perhaps carry the bus stop sign have been erected.
End of Day 8 (18 July) - no visible progress on the bus stop today.
End of Day 9 (19 July) - no further work
today.
End of Day 10 (20 July) - the bus stop has now been marked out on the road in yellow, but the final tar surface of the bus stop has not been laid, and there is still a temporary sign in place. There is no shelter for waiting passengers.
For more information about the bus stop, see blog post dated 20th July. Click here.
Saturday, 7 July 2012
Busway shortlisted for award
The busway has been shortlisted for the most innovative transport project in this year's National Transport Awards. See item in Cambridge News.
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Busway services to Peterborough
The timetable for the busway service B extension from Huntingdon to Peterborough is now available on the Cambridgeshire County Council website here. Or here.
Departures from Huntingdon are at 05.50 then hourly until 16.50 then 17.20, 18.20, 19.20. From Peterborough they are at 06.45, 07.45, 09.15 then hourly until 20.15. The service operates Monday to Saturday. Journey time is 44 or 45 minutes.
Intermediate calling points are described as follows: Little Stukeley opposite RAF Alconbury Main Gate (northbound), Alconbury near RAF Main Gate (southbound), Sawtry opposite Tinkers Lane, Hampton Serpentine Green.
Bizarrely, the Huntingdon to Peterborough journeys are shown in the same table as Huntingdon to Cambridge journeys, and vice versa - so there is no indication of whether they are through journeys between Peterborough and Cambridge.
Link to Studley's tidied up version of the Peterborough-Cambridge timetable here.
Departures from Huntingdon are at 05.50 then hourly until 16.50 then 17.20, 18.20, 19.20. From Peterborough they are at 06.45, 07.45, 09.15 then hourly until 20.15. The service operates Monday to Saturday. Journey time is 44 or 45 minutes.
Intermediate calling points are described as follows: Little Stukeley opposite RAF Alconbury Main Gate (northbound), Alconbury near RAF Main Gate (southbound), Sawtry opposite Tinkers Lane, Hampton Serpentine Green.
Bizarrely, the Huntingdon to Peterborough journeys are shown in the same table as Huntingdon to Cambridge journeys, and vice versa - so there is no indication of whether they are through journeys between Peterborough and Cambridge.
Link to Studley's tidied up version of the Peterborough-Cambridge timetable here.
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Roadworks affecting route A at Addenbrooke's
Stagecoach East have issued a bulletin about roadworks taking place at Addenbrooke's:
Buses on route A will be unable to serve Robinson Way Cambridge (Addenbrooke's Hospital) from 1900 on 5th July 2012 until 0700 on 11th July 2012 due to roadworks.
In addition to this buses will be unable to serve the bus stop at the out-patients centre between 0700 and 1400 on Saturday 7th July 2012.
Customers are advised to use the stops in Keith Day Road as an alternative for both closures.
Buses on route A will be unable to serve Robinson Way Cambridge (Addenbrooke's Hospital) from 1900 on 5th July 2012 until 0700 on 11th July 2012 due to roadworks.
In addition to this buses will be unable to serve the bus stop at the out-patients centre between 0700 and 1400 on Saturday 7th July 2012.
Customers are advised to use the stops in Keith Day Road as an alternative for both closures.
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