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The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway is a guided busway and Bus rapid transit that connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in Cambridgeshire, England. It has the longest guided busway in the world, [1] [2] surpassing the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia. [3] [4] [5] Two guided sections make up 16 miles (25 km) of the route.
On its 2011 opening, the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway route absorbed the majority of the old railway between St Ives and the point at which the bus joined public roads at Milton Road. The remaining section between the former level crossing over Milton Road and the Fen line was converted to an extension to the Guided Busway in 2015 to join it to ...
As of September 2023, Stagecoach East operate three routes on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, these being routes A, B and C serving Cambridge, Huntingdon, St Ives and Trumpington, among other destinations. [18]
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 ...
BRT corridor incorporating "just over 16 miles" [10] of guided busway, using the alignments of the former Cambridge and Huntingdon railway and also of the Varsity Line. St Ives Park & Ride - Milton Road, Cambridge , construction begun in January 2007 [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and opened to traffic on Sunday 7 August 2011.
In addition to services C and U, in February 2019, Whippet launched a service P (for Pedigree), using the B7RLEs which previously operated on the C, between Cambridge City Centre and Addenbrooke's via the Guided Busway, thus duplicating Stagecoach's A and D services on this section. Service P lasted six months before being withdrawn in August 2019.
The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway between Cambridge and St Ives, at 25 kilometres (16 miles), is the world's longest guided busway. [11] Between 2004 and 2008, a 1-mile (1.5 km) section of guided busway was in operation between Stenhouse and Broomhouse in the west of Edinburgh.The route was later converted for use by Edinburgh trams. [12] [13]
St Ives is just off the A1307 (former A14) road on what was a particularly congested section of the route from the UK's second city, Birmingham, to the port of Felixstowe and thence to the mainland of Europe [41] Before the opening of the new bypass, this 32-kilometre (20 mi) section of road also linked the northern end of the M11 (Cambridge ...