It sometimes seems that cars are the essential beige, and bicycles are the new black. But public transport remains a key means of getting around for a lot of people - frequently the less well off, whether students or the elderly. I have four bus related issues on the go at the moment, and I'm sure this is the case across the rest of the rural non-urban county.
I do know though that given the current financial strictures getting a good result isn't going to be easy. Anyway, here they are:
- People in
Whittlesford have been lobbying me for the A7 bus to go through Shelford
on at least one of its journeys. This is because there are quite a lot
of amenities such as a dentists, library, good shops etc in Shelford.
There was a good community engagement exercise done when the route was opened up, but maybe this is now time to have another look.
- I have had a request from a supervisor at the Babraham
Institute saying that the costs of taking the bus there are prohibitive
for his PhD students, because the fares get hiked up when the bus goes passed the Gog Magogs and it is the same price whether one is going to Babraham or Haverhill.
- Fowlmere residents continue to
observe that the proposed travel into town for them - even though they
like the route - is, at over six pounds, going to be prohibitively
expensive for pensioners.
- The Duxford IWM used to have a transport
link to Whittlesford station but this was removed with the demise of
the old C7. This does cause a problem for the museum, and for people wanting to visit it other than by car.
It all goes to show that buses still actually matter, and are a lifeline for many different transport issues.
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