London Banter - View Single Post

Roland Perry · April 22nd 17, 09:01 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 19:51:45
on Fri, 21 Apr 2017, remarked:

Still, perhaps like in Edinburgh, sense might one day prevail and the
whole pathetic system is ripped up and replaced by a tramway. And don't
say there isn't the room - if they can squeeze a tramway into hilly
nottinghams market square and weave one around the centre of manchester
they could do it in cambridge too.

There I agree with you, though I think heavy rail would have been the better
solution for St Ives.

St Ives is not nearly large enough to justify a new heavy rail station.
And remember the guided bus serves not just a field outside St Ives, but
many of the local villages, and Huntingdon.

The only reason *anything* was done is to serve Northstowe, and love it
or hate it the bus is better than 1tph 2-car DMU shuttling between
Cambridge and St Ives Parkway.
--
Roland Perry