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The busway links Cambridge, in East Anglia, with St Ives, Huntingdon and Northstowe (a proposed new town) to the north-west, and with the M11 motorway to the south. The route includes two sections of guided operation, a bus-only road and other places with on-street operation in conventional bus lanes.
This is a route-map template for the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, a guided bus system in the United Kingdom.. For a key to symbols, see {{bus route legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Description: A Cambridge-bound bus approaching the Longstanton stop. Note the diagonal pits in the roadway designed to prevent unauthorised use of the busway. ICBM: 52.291993164558, 0.053523613782334; Location: (about 1 km from) near to Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
The Nagoya Guideway Bus opened in March 2001 and is the only guided bus line in Japan. The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway between Cambridge and St Ives, at 25 kilometres (16 miles), is the world's longest guided busway. [11]
Northstowe is linked to Cambridge and St Ives by the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway which opened in 2011. [21] There is a stop at Longstanton Park & Ride, with a further busway loop through the town under construction.
This is a list of the past, present, planned or abandoned guided bus systems or bus rapid transit schemes in the United Kingdom, including segregated busways.Not included are bus priority schemes, bus lanes or local authority bus company quality contracts that do not involve guidance, significant segregation from the public highway or other bus rapid transit features.
A guided bus entering the concrete busway track. Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is the world's longest guided busway and passes through Cambridge. [3] The designated route runs on normal road from Huntingdon to St Ives, then via a bus-only guided section along the former Cambridge-St Ives railway south-east into Cambridge, where it rejoins the road at either Milton Road or Histon Road and then ...
It served the villages of Longstanton and Willingham (being roughly midway between them), until closure in October 1970. [1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann. The railway line through Long Stanton remained open for freight trains from Cambridge to St Ives, Cambridgeshire, until 1992.