St Ives to Cambridge Railway/Busway = 02.01.08 =

TRAMS AND TRAINS WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER!
See the progress made by the Guided Busway.
This film took 30 miles of cycling and almost a whole 2gb card to make!
This is the first film on the topic by Nodding Cat Channel since the famous "St Ives to Cambridge Railway (fast Version)"
also see: "Save Histon Station" and "Cambridge to Trumpington/Addenbrooke's Railway" (All on NCC on Youtube)
Filmed in January 2008
KRAFTWERK MUSIC (OFF AUTOBAHN)

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Busway
• Railway
• Guided
• Train
• tram
• Bus
• St
• Ives
• Histon
• Oakington
• Rampton
• Longstanton
• cambridge
• cambridgeshire
• CGB

[RangersLadForever]

the choice for the busway was moronic. The re-instatement of the railway would connect St Ives and Cambridge to Huntingdon and peterborough etc

GUIDED BUSWAY = RUBBISH

[NODDINGCAT]

@RangersLadForever

Nicely put!

[Trainbuff2008]

its obvious the workman of today don't know how to build a railway but know how to build anything out of concrete.

[NODDINGCAT]

its obvious

[gallafey]

wat a pease of crap these guided busways are Labour r seriosly trying do a way with the train & the tram, Labour was running the country in the 1930s when the tram started disapearinng from every city & town exsept blackpool, 1960s Labour anounsed thay were closing the railways and now most town Like Leigh have railway, trams & trains r better buses, buses break down alot buses stoll and get stuck in traffic jams

[NODDINGCAT]

1930s was really the heyday of the tram. Most systems got such a battering in WW2 that they weren't worth repairing. London lost her (old school) trams in 1952.

Curious spelling in your posting.

The Guided bus was the brain child of the TORY county council.

[mvjedforest]

What a tragic and expensive waste of a viable railway line. Typical of this country! Excellent vid of the construction phases. Well done 5*

[parallelepipete]

It's madness. This is all about perceived running costs and to hell with the higher speeds and capacity of rail, bringing Cambridge closer to the ECML, and freight-carrying capacity. Watch in a few years' time as councillors justify yet more A14 upgrades to cope with the freight that can't travel on a busway, and the passengers that won't.

ravenseft, I share your feelings. I hope it fails so spectacularly that no-one proposes such a scheme ever again.

[kent380]

I can't wait for the day they decide to upgrade it to a proper railway or tramway.... good luck!

[mrspeedoracer]

Please tell me this is a wind up, or have i lost the plot with what going on in this country that gave railways to the world PLEASE PLEASE THIS IS A WIND UP!!!!!!!!!!

[Bignadim]

Damn it, lay the rails and bolt them on to the concrete! Foundation and run some proper trams with overhead lines. Job dome why use diesel buses

[shaydap]

im not complaining ive got the worlds most expensive cycle route for work everyday,

Some cyclists need to use there brains tho and use the dirt track provided and not the bus tracks !!

[Benyboy001]

The funny thing is both sides (The Council and BAM Nutall) are just blaming eachother. This was supposed to open in February 09 but it will be lucky to open in February 2011 at this rate...

[jeffdarga100]

I guess this way the bus driver can text on his cell phone rather than steer the bus.

[keepinguptheday]

The busway is years late because of faults that were found after it was built. 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 already-constructed installation.

[utterbullspit]

I hear that this thing still hasn't opened yet. Damn shame.

[trainlover657]

the track way there! THE STATIONS WERE THERE!!! THEY WASTED MONEY RIPPING UP THIS TRACK AND A WASTE OF CONCRETE!! WTF?! ._.