I seem to have confused the chat software again: here's what I meant to write! Jen wrote: > Hmmm. > > Press release here > > www2.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/db/pressrel.nsf/ 6fcbd4565a583c6480256b52004254fd/860b6bdfbab4389f802570d2002fdfc7? OpenDocument > > Jen > > On 9 Dec 2005, at 8:00 am, Paul Oldham wrote: > >> According to BBC RC this morning the inspector has given the green light to the guided bus on the old St-Ives to Cambridge railway line. >> >> Paul It's OK, it'll never be built, the last paragraph of the press release gives it away: ?Getting permission to build the busway is an important first step, but we now need the Government to come forward with the funding they promised for the scheme. We are doing all we can to deliver the project as quickly as possible but we are now in the hands of the Government in terms of how quickly they can give us the money to get on and build the busway.? ;-) I have really mixed feelings about this project - on the one hand I can see the sense of a really flexible mode of public transport, on the other, it will all stand or fall on how the buses cope with the non-guided sections of route - it may well prove to be just a quicker way to join a massive gridlock in central Cambridge. Perhaps now we see another reason why Cambridge will be a trial area for congestion charging. It seems odd that elsewhere in the UK light rail/tram is the way to go, which seems to work really well, but here we are to have the longest guided busway *in the world*. So we will be the envy of the world. Perhaps. On another, not entirely unrelated, and more Milton-centric matter - did I see somewhere that Stagecoach Citi route 2 is being extended to Milton in the New Year? Does anyone know what route it will take? If this is true, it might make a good alternative to the Park and Ride for locals. Happy travels! David. -- Rev David Chamberlin Rector of Milton, Diocese of Ely The Rectory, Church Lane, Milton, Cambridge, CB4 6AB t: 01223 861511 :: m: 07761 630775 www.revdc.net :: www.allsaintsmilton.org.uk