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Many people have to change from one bus route to another every day to complete their journey. You claim that there is no custom or demand as people have to change buses has no foundation. Afterall many people also change trains as part of their journey as well as changing to other modes of...
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Wire the planned East West Route between Bedford and St Neots. This would allow Thameslink Bedford services in times of failure on the ECML to be extended to Peterborough.
I did not say that the railway should not go any further east than the ECML. What I said was that the Eastern section be built in two sections with the Bedford-ECML section built first followed by the much harder to build ECML-Cambridge section. The X5 bus is very much interlinked with the...
Milton Keynes is also a major employment centre, So you have flow in both directions at peak times. Few people get on or off in Bedford, most travel through.
This morning in Bedford bus station was chaos with the 905 departing before the X5 arrived and the same with the 905 arriving after the...
Seems Stagecoach have aready thrown in the towel as regards to the X5. As from Tuesday (1st September) the X5 no longer runs between Bedford and Cambridge. And is replaced with a normal bus service (905) from Bedford to Cambridge which will also stops in Cambourne, also at Cambridge Regional...
Still used by stone trains to and from Middleton Towers via Kings Lynn, Routing the Peterborough line through that bridge would require a sharp S bend or a bridge over Roswell pit.