Planned well, franchising could deliver a Swiss-style integrated, comprehensive public bus service.
The Smarter Cambridge Transport response to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Independent Economic Review's interim report.
How can anything work in Cambridgeshire when five bodies have responsibilities and receive funding for transport?
Public education is needed to give cycling and walking a more positive image.
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.
Better enforcement of straightforward regulations would reduce congestion and make streets safer for all.
The mayor’s recently-published Interim Transport Strategy Statement re-confirms his ambitions for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The County Council has voted to move its base from Castle Hill in Cambridge to Alconbury Weald. It's a done deal.
Why increasing road capacity with more lanes just buys time ...and worse, the business case for the sustainable stuff evaporates
It's a question which can be asked about many roads, but in this case the reason may be history as much as any lack of care by the County Council.
Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) published a report in March that deserves more attention than its uninspiring title and status suggest.
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.
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