In message , at
16:56:08 on Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Tim Streater
remarked:
Are you aware BTW that one reason for the guided bus was that the
Labour Govt said if you don't take this £95M towards it, you won't get
the A14 improvement. Since the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon is a ****ing
death-trap, that amounted to Hobson's choice.

And the next government cancelled the A14 improvement anyway. Oops.

Although the events were somewhat different, mindful that the guided bus
is mainly there to take people from a new town built on the Oakington
brown field site to Cambridge, avoiding the A14. Although due to the
recession, and a degree of confusion over whether it's supposed to be an
Eco-Town[tm] they haven't started building the houses yet.
--
Roland Perry