TheGrandWazoo
Veteran Member
Oh come on... building a station on an existing line is one thing and is something that we've seen across the UK, even in places where it's rather less compelling like Reston or Bow Street.Never say never. You have no idea what Cambridge in general and Granta Park in particular will be like in 10 or 20 years time.
10 years ago the Biomedical Campus was arable fields with no business case for Cambridge South.
The construction of a heavy rail line that ends up as a stub in a business park. Nope - not going to happen. Instead, you could have a guided busway that would enable a link onward to Linton and Haverhill which is something rail can't now provide. However, as you seem to have a "train or nothing" perspective, I suspect that you'll have to deal with the latter.
I thought the point of the guided part was that you could have busses going faster than they normally could safely on road made from a tight former BR track, not to keep car traffic away from it
Yes @renegademaster - the primary objective is to use the guided busway to allow higher running speeds to be achieved. However, the ability to keep out non-car traffic is a by-product though as @Bletchleyite is correct in saying, technology such as geofencing and entry cameras etc do help in enforcement.It's a bit of both. To be honest, though, cameras on entry and "give ways" at tight bridges would probably have worked just as well.
Another unintended benefit (over simply having bus only roads as in South Hants) is that whilst restricting existing non Busway traffic, it does help in safeguarding the route. In terms of the latter, much of the Bristol metrobus scheme isn't guided bus but simply bus lanes (not even dedicated road). What chance that some populist mayor comes along and simply says that they'll remove that? Much harder if it's guided bus, but that's again not a reason in itself.