Histon: The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway

Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 5 Feb 2011

With buses conspicuous by their absence, and Cambridgeshire County Council and the main construction contractor BAM Nuttall locked in a contractual dispute, the new busway remains unopened, with currently no date set for an opening. This is the view from the public footpath crossing from St Audrey's Close to Histon Wood and thence to Girton along the route of the former Cambridge and St Ives railway line, which the new busway follows for a substantial section of its route. The railway closed to passenger traffic in 1970, and to freight in the 1990s. To the outsider, who has in part funded the scheme though taxation since £92.5 million of the cost was allegedly provided by central government, the sign on the left just about sums up the whole sorry farrago. Why is there a warning sign advising of the crossing located immediately after a bus would have passed it...? If the sign is meant to warn pedestrians of the crossing why is it not aligned in their direction of travel?

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