Yet More (mis)Guided Busway
Nov. 13th, 2009 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
suzyscottdotcom... Well, announcements had been made by the operators and the council that The Busway was due to open on 29th November 2009, somewhat late, and somewhat over budget - at least, between Huntingdon rail station and central Cambridge.
Apparently now the drivers have been told that it will not be opening on 29th November (see previous posts about not yet being handed over, contractor stropps etc.) and it's going to be January. Didn't say which one though...
... and only today, I've passed a bus (operating on the Royston - Cambridge corridor - how many takers for an A14-based busway about ten miles south???) proclaiming virtues of The Busway.
PDF timetables have just gone up - I'd download them now, before something changes!
This does happen just one day after the announcement that Cambridgeshire County Council has been awarded Transport Authority Of The Year, at the UK Bus Awards.
Naturally, no official statement has been made to the Forum, media, or anyone, but keep an eye out this week. Will be fun watching them squirm out of this... and as for the changes to the rest of the network, I will presume it's all going on hold - or will it? It's not just the country stuff, things like the citi1/2 changing in Cherry Hinton, as well as cuts to the citi2/7, might be on hold.
