Date published: 2006/06/21
The Cambridge Evening News says:
Bikes, buses and feet are leading the way in plans for new transport links for the development of north-west Cambridge.
Consultants WS Atkins have begun working out how people will get around the new developments between Madingley Road and Huntingdon Road and how they will link in with plans for the NIAB site.
Ideas include a new orbital route to take pressure off Histon Road, Huntingdon Road and Madingley Road. This could be for cyclists and public transport only. North-facing slip roads at the M11/A1303 interchange are also being considered.
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Coun Sian Reid, the city council's executive councillor for planning and transport, said: "We are looking at transport first and than we can go on to look at some of the other issues in the light of the transport questions which haven't been answered yet."The consultants said the thing to do is predict, promote and provide cycling, public transport and walking. We really want to manage the car. We're very much going to be focused towards what we can do to really facilitate public transport and cycling and try to tame the car a bit.
More stupidity from the Cambridge ruling elite. This alleged new orbital route is supposed to "take pressure off Histon Road, Huntingdon Road and Madingley Road". Of course it would do no such thing, because the "pressure" on those roads is due almost entirely to cars, and they are the one mode of transport that will be forbidden from this route. Indeed the traffic on all three roads is going to get worse, because they are building thousands of new homes with no increase in road capacity. Thank god for the geniuses who run Cambridge. Reid lives on Millington Road, which is the domain of millionaires, and that road seems to have no shortage of cars. But of course it's ok for the rich to have cars, it's just everyone else that should be forced not to have cars.
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