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Thanks for the recent input. There is a degree of progress in our proposal for a new station at Milton Road, designed both to protect the trackbed that has been taken up further along for the guided bus, and also to serve locations like Cambridge Science Park. As and when there is more that I can tell you, I will do so. But sadly, the guided bus project itself seems to be lurching from one crisis to another - here's the latest http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Growing-fears-that-guided-buses-wont-run-until-2011.htmOf course it is nice to be able to snipe at the council's failures, but when you know how much money has gone into this, at a time when we are supposed to be strapped as a nation... And bizarrely, they seem to be determined to press on with other busways. |
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« Reply #76 on: July 05, 2010, 23:15:25 » |
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« Reply #77 on: July 06, 2010, 02:51:13 » |
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Welcome to the forum, Mr Kipling.
Indeed. A very warm welcome. Can we look forward to some exceedingly good posts?   Ok..... coat, fetch, etc. |
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« Reply #79 on: October 19, 2010, 19:21:13 » |
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Apparently the contractors are still repairing defects and now owe over ^8m in penalties.
Jan 2011 is now the intended start date.
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« Reply #80 on: October 19, 2010, 21:10:03 » |
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As I was walking in Cambridge City centre this evening, a Stagecoach bus drove past me with the forlorn question painted on the side ... "When will I be able to use the Guided Busway?". It must be five of six months since I was last here, but the start of the route at the Cambridge Science Park looks unaltered - this marvellous new busway headed off to the North West with huge concrete stop-blocks on it. But one change is that there seem to be ever more cyclists heading out along the route.
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« Reply #81 on: October 19, 2010, 23:35:22 » |
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« Reply #82 on: October 19, 2010, 23:46:35 » |
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As I was walking in Cambridge City centre this evening, a Stagecoach bus drove past me with the forlorn question painted on the side ... "When will I be able to use the Guided Busway?". It must be five of six months since I was last here, but the start of the route at the Cambridge Science Park looks unaltered - this marvellous new busway headed off to the North West with huge concrete stop-blocks on it. But one change is that there seem to be ever more cyclists heading out along the route.
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« Reply #83 on: October 20, 2010, 09:24:04 » |
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Jan 2011 is now the intended start date.
Are we going to run a sweep on the exact date? |
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« Reply #84 on: October 20, 2010, 12:31:42 » |
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I trust we can look forward to some pictures of the latest (lack of) developments? I didn't see anything new to photograph ... although I suppose I posted up some springtime pictures, and I could see if I can get out of the place I'm working before it gets dark to get some pictures with the leaves falling off the trees. Jan 2011 is now the intended start date.
Are we going to run a sweep on the exact date? The authors of Perl 6 (programming language) have it right. "You'll have it for Christmas - we just won't tell you which Christmas". Mind you - that's been going on for a number of years and I thing that Perl 6 may turn out to have missed the boat. Perhaps there's a similarity with the busway? |
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« Reply #86 on: March 24, 2011, 09:21:46 » |
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Latest update for opening date - October 2011.
And as one of my colleagues in CAST.IRON has just commented - the ^200m budget boost to regional railways is the equivalent to one 20 mile guided busway.
There's good value for you
Hey ho
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« Reply #87 on: March 24, 2011, 22:38:32 » |
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Latest update for opening date - October 2011.
As per previous post any one for a sweep? |
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« Reply #88 on: March 25, 2011, 05:32:43 » |
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Latest update for opening date - October 2011.
Do you have a source for this? - I can't find anything about it on the Cambridge Evening News website. |
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« Reply #89 on: March 25, 2011, 22:56:43 » |
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The latest thing I can find is dated 25/03/11. BAM Nuttall have to hand over a completion certificate to the Council and they then have 28 days to fix any remaining defects. It is anticipated that they won't bother and the council will then hire other contractors and give them 28 days to sort it.
So at least two months to go.
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