![]() ![]() James Littlewood - Chief Executive Cambridge Past, Present & Future. ![]() The GCP says the busway aims to significantly improve bus and active travel journeys between Cambridge and Cambourne via the new Bourn Airfield development, a new travel hub at Scotland Farm, Hardwick and West Cambridge campus. ![]() It held public meetings with the GCP that led to a change of the route, so that it would run on the road through St Neots Road in the village, without a bus gate. Hardwick Parish Council was not involved in the petition. ![]() The petition has been organised by charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future, Coton Parish Council, Coton Busway Action Group, Coton Orchard, Coton Loves Pollinators and Save the West Fields. “Building concrete runways through ancient orchards and other green spaces at vast expense is a method of increasing land values and making them easier to build on – not solving Cambridge’s dreadful traffic congestion as the GCP claims,” said Susan Buckingham, a spokesperson for the river group. The Friends of the River Cam, a voluntary organisation, described it as a “Trojan horse”, designed to open up new areas of greenfield land for housing and industrial development. The C2C busway will link Cambourne and Cambridge via the new Bourn Airfield development, a new travel hub at Scotland Farm, Hardwick, and the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge campus. All we are asking is that the two schemes are properly compared before a decision is made.” “There is a viable alternative scheme for a bus lane on the existing road which could achieve similar journey times, is less damaging to the environment, is far less expensive and can be delivered more quickly. “Everyone wants to see better public transport to the west of Cambridge but we shouldn’t have to destroy our environment and heritage for future generations in order to achieve that,” he told the Cambridge Independent. James Littlewood, chief executive for Cambridge Past, Present and Future, appealed to councillors to act in the interests of nature. They will present a petition – signed by 2,300 people calling for the on-road solution – to the meeting on Tuesday (March 21). ![]()
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