Please sign our petition to the Greater Cambridge Partnership to reallocate funding from busways and car parks to more sustainable alternatives.
Smarter Cambridge Transport
Response to East West Rail consultation
Ideas and commentary on the proposed route alignment for the central section of East West Rail, focused on Cambridge to Cambourne.
The Travel Hub Design Principles report produced by Mott MacDonald
Smarter Cambridge Transport has submitted a question to the Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board meeting on 18 March 2021.
Response to Eastern Access consultation
Smarter Cambridge Transport’s comments and additional ideas for improving access to Cambridge by cycle, bus and train from the east.
Response to Cambridge South East Transport consultation 2020
The Greater Cambridge Partnership is expected on 1 July 2021 to give the go-ahead for this scheme to proceed to its final stage before granting permission for its construction. The most recent information is available...
Response to Cambridge South station second consultation
The initial proposals from newtork Rail for the Cambridge South station are wholly inadequate and are based on flawed data.
Objection to the Hauxton Park & Ride Planning Application
Building more car parks is fundamentally the wrong approach to rapidly de-carbonise transport and reduce congestion on the local road network.
Response to the ‘CAM Sub Strategy’
We are concerned that the CAM's Sub Strategy does not mention management of risks, and should state where the network will integrate with coach services.
Responding to the A10 (Cambridge–Ely) upgrade proposals
We urged you to respond to the Combined Authority consultation on the A10 upgrade (Ely to Cambridge) before it closed on Tuesday 14th July 2020.
What is Smarter Cambridge Transport?
Smarter Cambridge Transport is the initiative of an impartial group of local people, all volunteers, developing and promoting a modern vision for integrated transport in Cambridge and the surrounding region. Our immediate focus is on ensuring that the Greater Cambridge City Deal money is spent in the best possible way.
What else is happening?
Petitioning the GCP to change its priorities
Our petition asks the GCP Board to change its priorities to schemes that could be delivered in less time with greater benefit, and much lower environmental damage.
Edward Leigh
Railroading decisions on busways and car parks
Is GCP railroading inexperienced councillors into agreeing to proceed with environmentally damaging and demonstrably unnecessary projects?
What stops you from walking or cycling more?
Is there anywhere you don’t walk or cycle simply because it’s impossible or unsafe to do so?
Why we fail to design transport for everyone
We're challenging the new mayor and County Council to ensure transport is not just designed for a small minority of the population.
Vision Zero: let’s make it a reality
To many, reducing speed limits seems perverse. But the reduced grief and pain, and increased freedom for our children, is more than worth it.
A new mayor brings a dramatic shift in priorities
The new mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, Dr Nik Johnson, brings a very different set of priorities to the job.
Here’s what we’re proposing
Reducing Traffic Congestion and Pollution in Urban Areas
Ideas for reducing congestion and pollution in urban areas, developed in the context of the Greater Cambridge area, typical of many UK towns and cities.
About Smarter Cambridge Transport
In The News
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus vision? More growth.
The new vision being developed for the Cambridge Biomedical Campus is all about growth, but the Campus needs to set its house in order first.