LONDON ENGLAND – With the way things are going and gas prices rising it seems that public transport is the way to go when it comes to travel of the future. Now this is no new thing as in the past when private vehicle owners were scarce.
But the future looks like we are going back to the days of public transport. Cambridge was the first to take this up as they drew up a bus route map. The map on its own seems like is not only Cambridge central but outer Cambridge as well. The greater part of Cambridge came in a proposal earlier this week and was revealed to the public soon after.
The proposal included bus routes, longer service hours and cheaper bus ticket rates. This was all done so that for one people would be more enticed to take public transport which would mean that traffic would die down coming to part two the air pollution due to this shortage will also come down.
There have been ways to fund these improvements. But it seems that the public will also help by now paying a 5 euro a day to travel into and around Cambridge. But to entice people to use the bus system it has been made cheaper to travel by bus rather than to use one’s own vehicle. In Cambridge a ticket could cost £1 to travel in the city, and a ticket could cost £2 in the wider ‘travel to work area’
The proposed bus network stretches outside of the Greater Cambridge area, including Royston, Newmarket, Ely, March and Huntingdon. Concerns had been raised by some councilors in those areas in the past as to whether the Partnership’s remit allowed it to deliver improvements outside of the Greater Cambridge area. The GCP has said it can and that it published the map to give the assurance that it could be delivered.
