I can't understand the fixation on a non-existent
technologically advanced, sustainable, highly efficient trackless electric vehicle which is not compatible with any existing transport in Cambridge.
The "consultation" is very narrowly cast and doesn't deal with a lot of obvious questions. I went to see the public display yesterday and came away rather disappointed. The questionnaire asks us to approve the locations of the four tunnel portals without showing more than very vaguely where they might be or mentioning how these were arrived at, ditto for where the city centre and railway interchange stations are or what alternatives were considered save that Market Square and Parker's Piece were ruled out in favour of Drummer St for a host of reasons. As any fule kno, the existing bus "station" at Drummer St and on neighbouring streets is a complete mess, do they have any plans to sort this out at the same time or is it just going to be a bigger mess? How much space do they need for construction above ground anyway, London Underground has plenty of stations which are little bigger than shop fronts at street level?
The main question posed is whether the E - W and N - S lines should share the tunnels between these last two stations or be separate (see here for details
https://cam.consultationonline.co.u...es/119/2020/02/CAM-Consultation-Leaflet-2.pdf). If separate, it is proposed that only the N - S line would interchange at the railway station (why?). However since this line also has interchanges at Cambridge N and potentially Cambridge S, it would be more useful if the E - W line were the one to go to the main railway station. Obviously the separate tunnels would be a lot more expensive as the two lines would be grade separated at the city centre.
The relationship with other planned transport upgrades is not made clear, for example to see how the proposed route comes in from Cambourne
you have to go to a separate unlinked website [
https://www.greatercambridge.org.uk...to-cambridge/cambourne-to-cambridge-the-route]. The staff on the stand said there were no details of how CAM would connect with either Cambridge South station or East-West Rail because the announcements were too recent. Are they all working in separate silos?