Cambridgeshire’s BRT plan is a vast waste of money

Paul Withrington Director, Transport Watch Northampton NN2
24 May 2019
 

Why is there this mania for bus rapid transit? LTT of 29 March reports the particularly lunatic 88-mile reserved bus network proposed by consultant Steer for Cambridgeshire (‘Cambs BRT network takes shape’). 

The reported cost is between £3.69bn to £4.5bn, providing a mid-range estimate of roughly £4bn. That amounts to an astonishing £45m per route-mile, or 20 to 40 times the cost of a single carriageway road. Even if the cost was the same as an ordinary...

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