Tuesday 20th January 2026 Councillors from Central Bedfordshire Council have long held ambitions for a bus route to connect Biggleswade directly with Cambridge and from the beginning of this year got their wish granted by introducing new route X75 using the Council's Bus Service Improvement Plan funds. Biggleswade is well served with Grant Palmer’s hourly... Continue Reading →
Thursday 17th July 2025 Regular blog readers will appreciate I couldn’t resist giving last week’s media reports about the bus route costing a £180 subsidy per passenger journey in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority area the BusAndTrainUser Verify treatment. Not that I disbelieved for one moment the veracity of the claim as it came... Continue Reading →
Sunday 15th June 2025 As the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority gears up for bus franchising, recently elected (six weeks ago) Conservative Mayor Paul Bristow wasted no time launching a raft of new bus roues at the end of last month. But I wonder if he really appreciates what a waste of money some of... Continue Reading →
... costing £250 per passenger. Thursday 28th December 2023 Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Mayor Nik Johnson has aspirations to take control of the region’s bus network through franchising but if a recent meeting of the Authority’s Transport & Infrastructure Committee is anything to go by, he’s going to have his work cut out to... Continue Reading →
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