The real problem is the huge carbon cost of continuing to use the petrol/diesel vehicles we have now and continue to manufacture.
Edward Leigh wrote to Jamie Burles of Abellio East Anglia Ltd. to ask for an open discussion to give stakeholders an opportunity to review the station area.
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.
Will politics or economics sink the busway project, or will it re-emerge Phoenix-like from the ashes as a new form of affordable mass transport?
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.
Our objectives for Network Rail to consider when designing Cambridge South station and its access infrastructure.
Smarter Cambridge Transport is disappointed to see only abstract commitments to the environment and public health, and no progress on resolving unavoidable tensions in reallocating space between different highway users...
We believe that the consultation on this draft Local Transport Plan needs to reach much deeper into the communities, businesses, schools and other organisations that will be affected for years to come by what is...
The economic case for CAM relies on a highly unconventional methodology to demonstrate value for money
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.
The real problem is the huge carbon cost of continuing to use the petrol/diesel vehicles we have now and continue to manufacture.
A consultation is looking at allowing articulated lorries some 2 metres longer than at present, as well as permitting 48-tonne lorries.
Initiatives like these are important. Everybody needs to be able to get about, whether or not they have access to a car.
Transport links to the east of Cambridge are particularly poor, so it’s good to see the GCP turn its attention in that direction.
Two more public consultations recently launched illustrate just how out-of-step with the times transport authorities are.
If the still-upward trend in car traffic continues, evening peaks are likely to become increasingly congested.
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.
We need to provide resources to enable community groups to organise themselves and employ experts – just as economic stakeholders do.
Edward Leigh
Smarter Cambridge Transport
Jim Chisholm
