Route A. Cambridge Guided Busway. 

had the pleasure of taking this journey while working in Cambridge recently after my van broke down. an amazing services. a bus trip in brum would take twice as long for half the distance. well done Cambridge.

A new definition to "Rail-bus" lol ;). I have to say it would have been cheaper to have laid new tracks and use Class 144's between St Ives and Cambridge though :).

IT'S THE HYPER ROAD!

@Joe90V So you watched this video while on the actual bus doing the same route? Wow that is so cool!

Far better than I expected and I do see that they bought decent buses made in Northern Ireland. Can't be all bad then.

amazing music!

We here at travel guide love the busway !!!

Unique!

I was literally on the edge of my seat with excited anticipation while watching this video. Is this the music that mace convenience stores played to shopers in the early 1980s?

That backing music is just awesome! Any chance you could provide me with a link to the original?

I don't agree with the statement,'Trams would of been better'. Think of how much money it would be to make the trams, ship the trams over, lay tracks, put up fences, install overhead power-lines and make state of the art parallel stations to doors when the tracks sink a centimetre a year.

I go on this every day to college -.-

i completley agree with you trams are tops i like this video btw whats the music called like name?

Tim Morgan "It looks good and it's unique but wouldn't making more normal bus lanes of been cheaper to build and maintain." It would have been marginally cheaper, but then it would have required 9.3m of width instead of the 6.7m, and that would have eliminated the walking & cycling track. Maintenance: assuming the RC beams were laid correctly (& they weren't) then it would have beaten an asphalt road 'hands down'. Of course Slipforming would have been a better construction method - & cheaper too. As I write this, I understand solicitors are pursuing Bam Nuttall for an extra £33m for the defects recently uncovered. Some people would have preferred Trams, but then there is neither the space nor the population (justify the expense) to use them in Cambridge. As it is, the Council can barely provide a metre's width for cycling (e.g.. Histon & Cherry Hinton Rds), so Trams mixing it with today's traffic levels was always a non starter. Cambridge needs a radical solution to its grid lock & building more Guided Busways are the 'best value for money'.

@Mydadsdog You pin pointed the music perfectly.

@farmersugarcane1 Nice comment!

I've watched a few vids on these guided bus routes and they all seem to do the one thing, travel fast between the beginning and end of the route like an express service. What about people who live between St Ives and Cambridge, the busway seems to avoid them, the few stops had no passengers. This is like the busway in Luton/Dunstable a couple of stops in Dunstable, get on the busway belt it down to Luton and they all get off, No convenient way for the Luton/Dunstable road occupants to get these buses, they have to catch the old services and sit in congestion.. Mind you convenient for the football matches stop right outside the ground. But it is a bit of a scramble for the night matches after the game, they just don't seem to want to put extra on and they are the last buses to run just after the game has finished.

Wow - I hadn't realised: a) how much of the system _still_ isn't finished (eg the bit by the rail station) b) how cycles must cross under Hills Rd bridge as if on a normal two-way road - along with the buses, not on their own cycleway - then have to turn aross the other lane after the bridge. Just as well there isn't an intensive service on this section, then!

Sure thing it's Bobbi Humphrey / The Sidewinder... Pleased you liked it, shame they don't have this wonderful early 70s music piped though-out the guided bus fleet.

It looks good and it's unique but wouldn't making more normal bus lanes of been cheaper to build and maintain.

Nice system! Your use a TP500 for Ticket? :-)

Rails would have been better, but that would have meant installing tram lines in Cambridge, something there isn't the space or the money for.

Whats the jazz tune ?

what happens if a bus breaks down on the guideway,how would they get a tow truck to the front end? system jam?

if this had been a train it could have been electrified, less pollution! one bus soon gets full, no option to attach another unit!

Has it gone ahead?

@ROCKSTARCRANE You continue to sit in a traffic jam on the A14 while I travel in comfort, write this on my laptop and enjoy my journey into Cambridge ;-)

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Sure thing it's Bobbi Humphrey / The Sidewinder..

How did you get permission to film?

I blame the shoppers

@Mydadsdog No, I'd seen the vid earlier, but just made the comment although the streaming was slow on the day. Still rather check my twitter & fb than sit in a traffic jam though.

Idk why people complain about it

*shoppers

I was hoping this to be good, but actually it's shit. How fucking slow are they going? it would have been more viable to use Trams on the sections they could.

A waste of concrete.....