Amanda Taylor

News and views about Cambridge and Cambridgeshire politics, especially Queen Edith's Learn more

How would you improve transport in the south of Cambridge?

by admin on 25 January, 2012

Transport and traffic are two of the hottest topics of debate in Cambridge. So I know there are lots of ideas for improving transport. Now it looks as though we may be able to put some of them into practice.

By law (Town & Country Planning Act 1990), councils may require money from developers to offset the impact of their developments. As this is laid out in Section 106 of the Act, the contribution is dubbed ‘Section 106 money’ by councillors. I do not know what the developers call it.

Cambridgeshire County Council is asking us for our ideas on how this money should be spent in the south of Cambridge. Projects should ‘mitigate the effect of the additional transport-related movements from new development’. The officers have come up with two proposals already:

  • a link between the Hills Road Bridge and the Guided Busway cycle route
  • a clean-up of signage on the ring road

They are asking us for further suggestions, and we shall be discussing proposals at the next South Area Committee on 5th March (Cherry Hinton Village Centre). So please let me have your brilliant ideas – come to the meeting too, if you can, as it is open to everyone.  If you’d like to join in the discussion, why not post a comment here?

OK, I’ll get things started: My idea is signage and low-level lighting on the Guided Bus cycleway. What’s yours?

   2 Comments

2 Responses

  1. Chris Rand says:

    How about an additional ticket barrier/entrance to the station at the end of Platform 3? It would allow many of those arriving at or leaving from the station to the south the opportunity to avoid the congested ticket hall. Of course, best of all would be the aborted bridge from Platforms 1/2/3 over to the Leisure Park.

    • Thank you Chris. I’m sure an extra ticket office would help reduce the queues at the main booking office too. Hear hear about the bridge to the Leisure Park … but a link between the GB cycleway and the Hills Rd Bridge would go some way…

Leave a Reply

You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>