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Busway opens and draws the crowdsCAMBRIDGESHIRE’S guided busway offering a minimum 10-minute frequency between St Ives and Cambridge, and bypassing the notoriously busy A14 trunk road, opened last week. Services are operated by Stagecoach and Whippet Coaches on the 25-kilometre busway, which is the world’s longest.
“I’m very pleased with the performance,” says Andy Campbell, managing director of Stagecoach Cambridge. We are already looking to see if we will need to put extra buses on the service from September.” Stagecoach has the flexibility to increase frequency because it has 23 guidewheel-equipped buses to cover a current peak vehicle requirement of 15.
The busway has not made any significant change to scheduled journey times, but will improve reliability and ride quality. A smartcard, currently available online, offers travel on both Whippet and Stagecoach buses. The busway was originally intended to open in 2009.
Read more at www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk |