The headline reminds me of Spamalot. **'Ere! He says he's not dead** "Well he will be in a minute" **I can't take him like that - it's against regulations** 'I don't want to go on the [plague] cart!' "Shut up!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLgQ... - Save Honey Hill campaigners also made a song -->

More at cambridgetownowl.com/2025/09/24/p... from September’s CBC Forum @cambridge-connect.bsky.social

'Radical' plans for a new £2.3bn major hospital #Cambridgeshire #BBCNews 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Note the proposed tunnels…which makes me think cc @cambridge-connect.bsky.social —>

….Could we keep the tunnelling teams together once the East West Rail work has been completed and transfer them over to do the main tunnel work for @cambridge-connect.bsky.social Light Rail? 🙂💡👍🏾

NEW BLOGPOST: "Cambridge Growth Company’s Mass Transit Commission to report back in June 2026" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/30/c... Plus some things on the water crisis.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... More busway headaches…

Good to see progress on MRT, updating Mass Transit Options study of 2018 is badly needed. We anticipate light rail will be one of the options considered; it is the most proven, practical and deliverable form of mass transit available, as evidenced in dozens of cities across Europe.

NEW BLOGPOST: "The Cambridge Growth Company risks making the same mistake as the GCP on light rail" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/27/t... Ft @cambridge-connect.bsky.social This is so effing grinding!!!

NEW BLOGPOST: "Tourism taxes coming to England following Scotland’s example" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/25/t... We won't find out the detail until tomorrow when the consultation is launched.

A Visitor Accommodation Supplement can enable the Cambridge light rail scheme we’ve proposed, including the tunnel. The Mayor of the Combined Authority should implement it without delay to deliver on 2025 election promise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW BLOGPOST: "Ministers confirm Cambridge East Station, and Eastern Entrance for Cambridge Station" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/19/m... I'll be on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire later this morning to talk about this

See also @cambridge-connect.bsky.social at www.cambridge-connect.uk/submission-s... which the GCP could have awarded a small amount of funding for a feasibility study for a light rail backed by 4 of the 5 mayoral election candidates - including the new Mayor Paul Bristow. There are alternatives.

Uppsala, Sweden, with a population similar to Cambridge, plans to invest £650M in a 17 km tramway with the aim of opening in 2029. It will connect residential, business & University areas with the main rail line & transport hubs - excellent plan! www.mainspring.co.uk/industry-new...

Valencia invests in metro and light rail www.mainspring.co.uk/industry-new...

Capital Rail Action Group prefer segregated route

Callaghan Square trams by 2028

We didn’t support a Congestion Charge in Cambridge in the form the GCP proposed, and the Oxford experience doesn’t persuade otherwise www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561634...

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

Trams return to København (Copenhagen) www.mainspring.co.uk/industry-new...

IfG DevoLab #3: How devolution can improve transport connectivity 📍This time our DevoLab will take place in Leeds, and will explore how mayors and local leaders can use devolved powers to improve regional transport connectivity. 🎟️ www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/devola...

@cambridge-connect.bsky.social ICYMI - any of your followers interested?

@camcycle.bsky.social @cambridge-connect.bsky.social @cambstravelall.bsky.social One for your networks?

"Minister for Housing proposes a centrally-led development corporation for Greater Cambridge." cambridgetownowl.com/2025/10/23/m... I had a look too - still want more detail on light rail/mass transit. cc @cambridge-connect.bsky.social

Extended? What about built?! 😃

“Sarah Nicmanis, the former @cambsgreenparty.bsky.social parliamentary candidate for #Cambridge, said the city's growth so far had not been inclusive and wealth had "not trickled down".” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Similar comments from other local politicians too. 1/2 —->

And yet here we are. Or aren't. Sigh. Cambridge has some of the thinkiest beings in the whole country and yet can't solve the problem of moving in / around it.

“In 2018 the Cambridge Mass Transit study concluded light rail was the best available technical solution and that the network model put forward by @cambridge-connect.bsky.social was the best practical solution.” www.cambridge-connect.uk

One of the reasons for building a @cambridge-connect.bsky.social light rail for #Cambridge: connecting up these new sci-tech parks that have popped up over the past few decades. Only the rush hour traffic jams in my neighbourhood are now ***in both directions*** (They weren’t pre-2000)

Great to see such progress! 🙂 But clearly still a way to go... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough has said he cannot guarantee support for running bus routes along the Cambourne to Cambridge (C2C) Busway if it is built

***Oof***

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... What provision is being made for proposed new busways? Are barriers proposed along the tracks?

@elliecrane.bsky.social “the concept of busways along with proposals for congestion charging (the latter having collapsed creating a huge problem for the City Access proposals) have their origins back in 2002.” cambridgetownowl.com/2024/09/21/c... 😳 @cambridge-connect.bsky.social

@cambridge-connect.bsky.social @edwardleigh.bsky.social

A useful example for Cambridge and other 🇬🇧 cities? www.mainspring.co.uk/industry-new...

Sadly it won’t open for another 10 years… 😞

New blogpost: Why has travel still not returned to pre-Covid levels? Why has the bounceback stalled on some indicators? Pre-Covid trends - and a dive into different journey purposes - offer some clues. grahamjames.co.uk/different-pu...

NEW VIDEO: Peter Freeman CBE gives evidence to the Cambourne-2-Cambridge Busway public inquiry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKEe... cc @cambridge-connect.bsky.social @cambstravelall.bsky.social

NEW BLOGPOST: "Cambourne-2-Cambridge busway public inquiry hearings begin" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/09/16/c... Also the opening speeches just set a new question that school/college/uni research projects could take on --->

£200M for busway that ends at edge of Cambridge, has poor Benefit Cost Ratio, was designed >10 years ago prior to Covid / East West Rail, causes irreparable & unnecessary harm to the Green Belt & Madingley Hill, & following A428 alignment has been not even been assessed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...