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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.
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.
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]
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.
English: Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire bus 15657 (reg. AE10 HFA) pictured operating on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, on the stretch between Oakington and Longstanton. The parallel cycle path is on the left.
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.