🚌 Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Bus Services Reimagined Project Proposals: "underpinned by clear standards for coverage and service levels" "Clear coverage standards" ✋What (where?) are the "clear standards for coverage and service levels", the "clear coverage standards"???

Big (Huge... HUGE!) CPCA Transport meeting next Wednesday, 17th June 2026 Includes * Bus Franchising: Independent Review (part exempt, but a 103 page report from Steer available!) * Bus Network Reimagined Project - Update * Community Transport Review * Greater Cambridge Transport Strategy 🧵...

Bus franchising (the Mayor requested an independent review which still hasn't been published) isn't on the list...? @honeybadger200.bsky.social @arj2024.bsky.social @acarpen.bsky.social

CPCA funding the 69 bus, runs once in the morning and once in the afternoon M-F. Nothing on Bustimes, Google or Apple maps yet. Contract value £316,627.92 excluding VAT £379,953.50 including VAT Award decision date 20 March 2026 7 tenders received www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/02587...

30-Minute Journey Time Isochrone from City Centre, by car (Peterborough and Cambridge), followed by the same but by Bus. Which speaks volumes.

'' Around 500 properties in Sussex and Kent are without water or have intermittent supply - South East Water says it is due to "increased demand" '' on BBC News page. It's only low 30s, summer gets warmer, UK has a 40.3c record, there shouldn't be shortages (anyway) due to "increase demand".

Translated: Amazon boss wants a constant stream of work experience staff at 16 as they'll be cheaper and constantly replaceable. ?

One-in-seven rail services will be cut on Avanti West Coast's __busiest__routes__ following a government request to reduce expenditure, the operator has said 😦

Puzzle: If one single Biomedical Campus in #Cambridge UK "contributes more than £4.7 billion to the UK economy, and could rise to £18.2 billion", shouldn't "we" (region) be able to fund a light rail system for all of #Cambridgeshire by this afternoon? Or at least sort basic public transport out?

It’s strange how the government can move quickly on some things (plug in solar to be available and safety regulations changed [scrapped?] within coming months) yet on others (like e-scooter trials, and making them legal, or not) takes years and years *tumbleweed* www.gov.uk/government/n...

CPCA Transport Committee agenda has at long last "Bus Stop Infrastructure Improvements". Systra again tasked with this, with a 108 page report selecting bus stops to be improved @honeybadger200.bsky.social @acarpen.bsky.social @arj2024.bsky.social @cbgbususers.bsky.social

Some stats on bus travel in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Overview & Scrutiny papers, based on 'Your Bus Journey' independent survey run by Transport Focus in June 2025. (CPCA had lower bus fares than national cap at that time)

Last month, there was a story about the Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Paul Bristow, wanting to spend £1.5m on free car parking in Peterborough City Centre. 1/16 cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk/news/mayors-...

Cambridge 2026: luxury apartments connected by potholed roads. Private wealth, public squalor - a symptom of the failure of successive governments to ensure wealth is more equitably distributed & local public services are properly funded. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

CPCA have voted to scrap two bus routes without resident engagement. Numbers in a report enough to base a decision on, not asking any of the passengers that use the services or those who don't use them but could do. Transport committee had told the Board there should be resident engagement.

Former Chair of Cambridgeshire County Council, former Mayor of St Neots. Huntingdonshire District Council has full elections in three months time. Last time around The Greens won their first seat in this once safe-as-military-fortresses Blue seat (John Major was MP for Huntingdon while PM)

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Board agenda has been published, includes "Proposed 2026/27 Budget and Annual Business Plan and Medium-Term Financial Plan 2026-2030" 🥱😵‍💫 More interesting to me, digging through stats: Region population near 1 million? only 151 completions of questionnaire online

Stagecoach bus strike starting tomorrow (after being called off a few days ago?) some interesting(?) things… No Tiger 2, 3, 4 buses - aren’t these contracted CPCA routes paid by us via Mayoral Precept?? £2.50 flat bus fare - so why not that all the time usually? Sawtry 7 ...?

People seem to repeatedly say #Cambridgeshire roads are rubbish BBC News articles about same contractor, for same county council... maybe time the contract was ended and move on? [Screenshots from Aug 2025, and Dec 2025]

Speaking up for bus users at Council meetings High up the ‘to-do’ list of the Cambridge Area Bus Users Executive Committee is to take steps to bring the needs of bus users to the attention of our local politicians. With this in mind, we have resolved to ask public questions at local council…

I wonder if it’s the speed limit Or the increase up to the £3 bus fare cap? Or a bit of both?

17 November 2025 transport meeting Comparing regions, their max distance to stop, min frequency, and cost benchmarks. Yet typical "Cambs style" 🤔 CPCA going for "dynamic" instead of actual numbers, and higher cost per pax?? @acarpen.bsky.social @honeybadger200.bsky.social @arj2024.bsky.social

Saw there was a story about 460,000 new homes for Cambridge on a paywalled site, but the report appears to be from Create Streets, who propose (do people living in and around the area get a say?) expansion in three key areas around the city by 2050 PDF: www.createstreets.com/wp-content/u...