Guided Bus Cambs County Council promo for comment

[permanetmarker2004]

what happens if the concrete breaks?

[justinefiona94]

Pff not very fast in the mornings :/ most from hill rise arrive at least 10 mins late sometimes. :(

PFF MAXIMUM OF 60!?!? They were going at least 90!! :O

Also, instead of spending so much on a busway...why not just repair the railway and use a train!?

[dmc1200]

@justinefiona94 They were going 90kph, not mph.

[Galladymo]

0:40 it is because in England is very high population density. I've got advice for English people. Sell your houses or flats in England and move to Poland. The standard of living is the same, but in Poland everything is 10 times cheaper. You haven't to work anymore. You could buy cheap house ar flat near Warsaw and for the rest of your money you could pretty and comfortably live in Poland from your bank interest.

[bigo93]

@Galladymo assuming we have money in our banks :P

[gallafey]

Cambrige should have ivested in a tram or train

[kr192101]

This is what Victroia, Canada needs.

[bakedbeanishdragon]

land.

[bakedbeanishdragon]

3:34 what about a railway line ? if they think they're clever then they obviously come from what the hoofy hoof hoof hoof is a railway!

[boltar2003]

"cheaper"?? Ah they having a laugh? Its cost FAR more than it would have cost to re-open the old railway line.

[hstadam1994]

It's only a matter of time until you hear about buses breaking down and bad feedback from the commuters. Why waste 180.7 million of good money on a stupid busway when it would of been so much cheaper to re-open the Railway?! The buses don't even travel fast, absolutly pointless tbh..

[flammasherman]

How long before it is replaced with tarmac, a ' sledgehammer to crack a nut ' with hideous infrastructure difiguring the Countryside.

[addy2503]

The busway opened today... Finally

[edj66]

A re-opened railway would have been miles better.

[iclt1940]

Time will tell whether this project will live up to its claims, but one thing's certain: rubber tyres on concrete track can never equal the efficiency of steel wheel on steel rail. And as to the video itself: poor speech recording quality further handicapped by absurd background "music" makes the whole presentation amateurish and unconvincing.

[MrWalter9000]

This project was absolute PANTS from the start, whoever is responsible for it should be held to account !!,, there was already a rail line in place , so part of the work was already done, another example of lets spend lots of money, also there will no doubt be quite a few accidents when it eventually opens because of the open crossings and cyclists ignoring the approaching buses when they are rinding along with their earphones at full volume,

[trainlover658]

ok lemme get this straight... it was cheaper to rip up the exsisting track of this railway and replace it with concrete slabs, rather than re-instating the rails of the exsisting line?

[jimmyass]

also this bus is 100% biofuel. They claim its eco friendly but its not. The rainforrest is being cut down in indonesia to produce biofuel. You wonder where all the orangatags are going its so we can travel to work thinking that we are doing are bit for the environment. They should use desil, or if they wanted to be green use a comniation of a trolly bus come/ desil engine.

[jimmyass]

This issue is typical council propaganda on transport. The people that think these videos up and the "selling points" are off their head with realilty. Free wi-fi, yes ok can use my phone. But there is no way on a packed comuter bus you can use a laptop. Bus seats are so close together and so compact that is imposible.

[Littlealan1959]

THIS GUIDED BUS ROUTE SHOULD HAVE OPENED 1 YEAR AGO ON A DISUSED TRAIN LINE BETWEEN HUNTINGDON AND CAMBRIDGE ENGLAND TO CUT CONGESTION STILL NOT OPEN YET DUE THE CONTRACTOR GOING INTO FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES LOL

[simon57601]

Are they going to be using ANY buses in it

[utterbullspit]

Are they gonna use bendy buses on this track too?

[AndyHunk10]

Not long now until it opens! PMSL!!

[jeffdarga100]

Is it REALLY cheaper ?

[MrHolmesd]

weve had one of these in adelaide since the 80's. saves alot of traveling time, the buses can reach up to 110kms an hour without stopping for red lights or other traffic

[keepinguptheday]

If the designers had built a test track first they could have identified any design faults and dealt with the inevitable problems of a new system before constructing the whole network. But they did not, and now they must sort out the problems on an alreadsy-constructed installation.

[4beatlefans]

...and when there is/has been an accident on other of these ridiculous things both road and rail investigators refuse to have anything to do with it. Absolute bloody shambles.

[muggles63]

CCC should be hung out to dry for this travesty.

Right through an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Typical council claptrap about environmental concern - what a load of tosh!

Concrete! effing concrete - shove it CCC.

[trainlover657]

well thats 160 million quid wasted

[HumanityWins]

that's cool, heard of it the first time...

perfect for terrorists tho - just yank the wheel a little and the whole bus with all the people are upside down next to the concrete road..

[symesjwall]

The cycle path was on a disused railway, anyway, before that was destroyed and turned into it, so what goes round, comes around, hey ?

[benbennit]

Wish they hadn't destroyed the local woodland and cycle path for this.

They have promoted this as eco friendly, but unfortunately that missed how much CO2 is created from creating 100,000 tons of concrete. p.s. Note to councilors from a recent paper on eco-friendly biodiesel "producing ethanol or biodiesel from plant biomass is going down the wrong road, because you use more energy to produce these fuels than you get out from the combustion of these products."

mmm.. going down the wrong road.

[kevkebab]

A hundred thousand tons of concrete apparently.

More like a hundred thousand tons of White Elephant crap.

[Cruithne3753]

£150 million?

Wasn't it Dolly Parton who said "it costs a fortune to look this cheap!"?

Sadly they're going to fob us off with this crap in Bristol too, but with the added cost of getting wendy bendy buses.

[DerMitten]

Lots of extra traffic lights installed, working and er still no buses. The busway is a waste of public money.

[bankerbertha]

Guided busway promised opening July 2008, then November 2009, now probably January 2010. Original costing was £65million, now expected to be £150million. Possible cost of reinstating the railway over which it runs £100million maximum. What a white elephant and a waste of money.