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Author Topic: Cambridge Guided Busway - ongoing discussion and updates (merged topic)  (Read 97557 times)
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« Reply #180 on: February 28, 2016, 09:20:41 »

Surely Cuthbert Dibble and Grubb are now based at Trumpington rather than Trumpton ?

An unpopular move to relocate to an out-of-town location...
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« Reply #181 on: July 12, 2016, 22:52:11 »

Seems there was another derailment last Thursday.

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« Reply #182 on: July 12, 2016, 23:03:36 »

Indeed - thank you for that alert, eightf48544.  Wink

From the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

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Guided bus leaves tracks and mounts grass verge in Cambridge


Investigations are under way to find out how the bus left the tracks

A bus has come off its guided tracks in Cambridge and mounted a grass verge.

There were no passengers on board the single decker and the driver was not injured in the incident, which took place shortly after 07:30 BST.

The scene on the Guided Busway on Hauxton Road, Trumpington, is not far from a section where another bus derailed earlier this year.

The bus is being recovered from the verge of the busway which was opened in 2011 at a cost of £181m.


The bus came off the track system shortly after 07:30 BST

Services are currently diverted between Trumpington and Addenbrookes.

Andy Campbell Stagecoach East Managing Director said: "As well as carrying out our own investigation, and accessing on-board CCTV (Closed Circuit Tele Vision) footage, we will work with the police and other relevant bodies to establish the cause of this incident as quickly as possible."

In February, Stagecoach dismissed a driver who derailed a bus after driving too fast and crashing, injuring five passengers.

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William Huskisson MP (Member of Parliament) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.

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« Reply #183 on: July 13, 2016, 12:17:26 »

Presumably the ORR» (Office of Rail and Road formerly Office of Rail Regulation - about) will be involved.

Is there a bus equivalent of the RAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) the BAIB?
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« Reply #184 on: July 13, 2016, 18:09:59 »

Is there a bus equivalent of the RAIB (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) the BAIB?
I rather think that would be the Office of Rail and Road themselves - a (mis)guided bus being perhaps the worst of both worlds.  Roll Eyes

Also, presumably, the P45 will be involved.  As it was on the previous occasion:
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In February, Stagecoach dismissed a driver who derailed a bus after driving too fast and crashing, injuring five passengers.

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William Huskisson MP (Member of Parliament) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.

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« Reply #185 on: July 14, 2016, 15:09:12 »

The Cambridge busway is 16 miles long in two bits with a service road one side and an embankment along most of the other. "Derailments" occur at the points where the bus enters or leaves the guided bits. Bristol's as yet unfinished busway is 2.4 miles long with 9 entry / exit points, and has the New Cut of the River Avon beside it on one side.

Time for a new risk assessment?
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« Reply #186 on: July 14, 2016, 15:20:20 »

Time for a new risk assessment?

Yes.  I've just made it and decided it's more risky than I thought!
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« Reply #187 on: July 14, 2016, 21:21:44 »

The Cambridge busway is 16 miles long in two bits with a service road one side and an embankment along most of the other. "Derailments" occur at the points where the bus enters or leaves the guided bits. Bristol's as yet unfinished busway is 2.4 miles long with 9 entry / exit points, and has the New Cut of the River Avon beside it on one side.

Time for a new risk assessment?

Ah, so perhaps that wall isn't just for flood defence then?
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« Reply #188 on: October 24, 2016, 19:48:38 »

A new section of the busway has been under construction for what seems an age - and this evening I got a first chance to use the footpath alongside it - headed from the Milton Road towards the new Cambridge North Station, which will probably open just after I finish all my regular trips up here.  The new taxi rank is also open at Cambridge Station.



I'm no transport professional ... so forgive me if the following questions have obvious answers:

1. How are the buses guided along this guided busway?   I don't see any raised guides, just a dashed white line, and I'm wondering is the buses are guided by having a chap with a steering wheel sitting in them, reading the road layout with his eyes and adjusting the vehicle's direction accordingly?    How does this vary from a regular bus?

2. I'm working in one of the buildings just behind the fence, but I have to walk some 400 yards north west to get on the guided busway path on which I can then walk the 400 yards back south east to where this picture was taken; I think it's a couple of hundred yards further on to the station site.  Why isn't there a path / crossing  from the busway into this heavy employment area, allowing people working there to get across to the residential area opposite (which is connected) and the station?  It would make the path / busway / station so much more useful!

3. There's no queueing sign or queue system at the new taxi rank at Cambridge station.  A train arrives and people flood out, staring at the front of the taxis and walking back to find one that's available.   Then the front taxis move away and the other pull up, bypassing the people walking up to them and loading people who arrived later off the train.  Why isn't there a "queue here" sign or something, and / or a series of numbered loading points to help the customer know what to do?  Is the system set up more to look pretty without signage than to work?

I love learning lessons from elsewhere in the UK (United Kingdom), but sometimes I'm so saddened to feel that I'm learning what to avoid and not what to ask for our council to copy!
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« Reply #189 on: October 24, 2016, 20:02:59 »

1. How are the buses guided along this guided busway?   I don't see any raised guides, just a dashed white line, and I'm wondering is the buses are guided by having a chap with a steering wheel sitting in them, reading the road layout with his eyes and adjusting the vehicle's direction accordingly?    How does this vary from a regular bus?
It will operate like a normal bus.  General opinion round here is that the council finally realised the "guided" part of the busway was a total waste of money.

I'm very much looking forward to Cambridge North opening.  At present, the journey to Cambridge station (on public transport) adds about 45 minutes to my rail journey, so driving is often an easier choice.  Cambridge station gets incredibly busy at the weekends.  I would argue it is probably not fit for purpose, in it's current form.  A few weeks ago, I counted 30+ people queuing for the TVMs (Ticket Vending Machine) (and roaming staff with Avantix (Ticket Issuing System used on board trains) machines) and about 25 at the manned ticket office.  The queue for the ticket office moved so slowly, I missed my train.  I ended up driving the journey, which actually turned out to be much cheaper.
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« Reply #190 on: November 02, 2018, 17:45:34 »

It seems Cambridge wanted more busways, but then changed their mind! but for what?
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Plans were afoot by the Greater Cambridge Partnership to create the county’s second multi-million pound guided busway as part of transport improvements along the A428 Cambourne to Cambridge corridor. However, the guided busway has been altogether dropped in favour of an enhanced metro scheme around Cambridge. An electrically powered, rubber tyred and “environmentally sound” vehicle will serve this section instead.
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« Reply #191 on: November 02, 2018, 19:03:25 »

A little delving suggests that CAM might be similar to what Mayor Marvin is proposing for Bristol - a bus that follows a white line painted on the road. On the bright side, at least it won't require pointless sections of guideway.
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« Reply #192 on: November 04, 2018, 10:27:55 »

Is it reserved white line or can anyone drive along it?
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« Reply #193 on: November 04, 2018, 20:46:09 »

A little delving suggests that CAM might be similar to what Mayor Marvin is proposing for Bristol - a bus that follows a white line painted on the road. On the bright side, at least it won't require pointless sections of guideway.

Just think - if you were fed up of being woken by the first bus of the morning going past your bedroom window, you wouldn't even need to ask the council or bus company sort it out. Just nip out in the dead of night with a tin of black paint and a tin of white, and you could reroute the service down the next street.
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« Reply #194 on: November 05, 2018, 21:51:42 »

The answer may be (to bring this into a thread I did not know existed when I made this contribution a little while back-

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I have had a very peripheral involvement with new public transport schemes in Cambridgeshire, whose county council fell in love with guided bus lanes some years ago, concreting over the old Cambridge to St Ives branch - a scheme that ran hugely over program and budget, and ended up as a massive claim against the contractor.

In the course of my involvement I was informed by an experienced transport consultant that the bus companies do not actually  like them.They involve expensive additional fitments to buses and the additional risk of damage from the bus way structures. They would rather just have ordinary roads built with access restricted by barriers or signage.   
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