Cambridge Area Bus Users
@cbgbususers.bsky.social
Working for bus passengers in and around Cambridge
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Angsty story about the dangers of escooters on BBC Breakfast right now. Horrific stuff. But you wait until these folk hear about these newfangled killers called cars.
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Angsty story about the dangers of escooters on BBC Breakfast right now. Horrific stuff. But you wait until these folk hear about these newfangled killers called cars.
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September 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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June is Camcycle's 30th birthday month & we'll be featuring our 30 cycling highlights since 1995.
No. 1: The Busway Path. We campaigned for it to be more than a 'maintenance track' with surfacing & lighting suitable for active travel. Hundreds of people now enjoy the benefits.
No. 1: The Busway Path. We campaigned for it to be more than a 'maintenance track' with surfacing & lighting suitable for active travel. Hundreds of people now enjoy the benefits.
June 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
June is Camcycle's 30th birthday month & we'll be featuring our 30 cycling highlights since 1995.
No. 1: The Busway Path. We campaigned for it to be more than a 'maintenance track' with surfacing & lighting suitable for active travel. Hundreds of people now enjoy the benefits.
No. 1: The Busway Path. We campaigned for it to be more than a 'maintenance track' with surfacing & lighting suitable for active travel. Hundreds of people now enjoy the benefits.
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Sad news of the death of a man who has done so much for MoreBus, local Public Transport and the wider #BCP community.
#RIP Andrew 🙏
#RIP Andrew 🙏
May 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Most often its the train we need rather than a bus. If we're heading to anywhere within, I dunno, 5 miles or so its rarely even a question, we'll cycle.
March 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Most often its the train we need rather than a bus. If we're heading to anywhere within, I dunno, 5 miles or so its rarely even a question, we'll cycle.
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Which is nice, but our transport system is positively neolithic. It's about 17 minutes on the train to Ely from here, on a bad day. I'd be ok if, say, three people were cheaper driving together. But its cheaper for one. Bonkers
March 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Which is nice, but our transport system is positively neolithic. It's about 17 minutes on the train to Ely from here, on a bad day. I'd be ok if, say, three people were cheaper driving together. But its cheaper for one. Bonkers
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...and it isn't sustainable, it isn't equitable, its not safe, and its not healthy. (fin)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
...and it isn't sustainable, it isn't equitable, its not safe, and its not healthy. (fin)
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...are we going to ditch it? I dunno. Probably. But this hilights just how absurd car culture is in the UK - trains and buses are insanely expensive. Driving is ludicrously cheap. The result is cars dominate everything, everyone, everywhere. Its not right (7)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
...are we going to ditch it? I dunno. Probably. But this hilights just how absurd car culture is in the UK - trains and buses are insanely expensive. Driving is ludicrously cheap. The result is cars dominate everything, everyone, everywhere. Its not right (7)
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...and other than if the car breaks (its barely used so doesn't break much) because its small and efficient its cheap to tax and costs little to maintain. This... Can't be right. It just can't. (6)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
...and other than if the car breaks (its barely used so doesn't break much) because its small and efficient its cheap to tax and costs little to maintain. This... Can't be right. It just can't. (6)
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...like its a little old i10, its not expensive to run. But even so, you'd be thinking that the inflection point where its cheaper driving should be somewhere towards three or four people going by car rather than 1. It is, straight up, if you have the car, cheaper to drive literally anywhere (5)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
...like its a little old i10, its not expensive to run. But even so, you'd be thinking that the inflection point where its cheaper driving should be somewhere towards three or four people going by car rather than 1. It is, straight up, if you have the car, cheaper to drive literally anywhere (5)
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...and there are things like zipcars for occasional big things we might need to get. But we started costing up normal trips too - one person, on the train from Cambridge North to Ely, is more expensive than one person driving. Parking there is free (4)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
...and there are things like zipcars for occasional big things we might need to get. But we started costing up normal trips too - one person, on the train from Cambridge North to Ely, is more expensive than one person driving. Parking there is free (4)
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So we're talking about getting rid of it again, and costing up options. Getting a hire car for emergencies is an option, and of course we ride bikes to everywhere within reach. And bike-train via. Cambridge North is fine... (3)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
So we're talking about getting rid of it again, and costing up options. Getting a hire car for emergencies is an option, and of course we ride bikes to everywhere within reach. And bike-train via. Cambridge North is fine... (3)
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This was years ago. Then came a pandemic and having a way for her to get home to her parents while public transport was at its most hazardous, with a father who's been ill forever, was worthwhile. We'd have got rid of the car otherwise... (2)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This was years ago. Then came a pandemic and having a way for her to get home to her parents while public transport was at its most hazardous, with a father who's been ill forever, was worthwhile. We'd have got rid of the car otherwise... (2)
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Had a chat with OH about whether we're getting rid of the car. We have a car for one reason - an old school friend of hers was critically ill in hospital and public transport from here to there, cross country in England, is dysfunctional. Anyone living in East Anglia will understand (1)
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Had a chat with OH about whether we're getting rid of the car. We have a car for one reason - an old school friend of hers was critically ill in hospital and public transport from here to there, cross country in England, is dysfunctional. Anyone living in East Anglia will understand (1)
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Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1992 and today
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Frans Halsstraat, Amsterdam in 1992 and today
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This.
Restricting choice and enforcing car dependency is social engineering.
Keeping fuel duty frozen whilst increasing public transport fares by 5-6% a year is social engineering.
Restricting choice and enforcing car dependency is social engineering.
Keeping fuel duty frozen whilst increasing public transport fares by 5-6% a year is social engineering.
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
March 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This.
Restricting choice and enforcing car dependency is social engineering.
Keeping fuel duty frozen whilst increasing public transport fares by 5-6% a year is social engineering.
Restricting choice and enforcing car dependency is social engineering.
Keeping fuel duty frozen whilst increasing public transport fares by 5-6% a year is social engineering.
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I'm glad of my bus. It doesn't get me to work (unless I go to town or at least Tesco and out again) but does get me to town (actually quite frequently except evenings and Sundays).
March 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I'm glad of my bus. It doesn't get me to work (unless I go to town or at least Tesco and out again) but does get me to town (actually quite frequently except evenings and Sundays).
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Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
March 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
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I know absolutely nuts! we're part of the SUV alliance with a number of other NGOs calling for stricter dimensions on new vehicles amongst other things www.suv-alliance.org.uk
SUV Alliance
www.suv-alliance.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I know absolutely nuts! we're part of the SUV alliance with a number of other NGOs calling for stricter dimensions on new vehicles amongst other things www.suv-alliance.org.uk
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A solution to flooding on the #Cambridgeshire guided busway is being urgently called for amid fears of another fatality on the route.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/joggers...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/joggers...
Joggers, cyclists and a mother with a pram come close to edge of busway to avoid flood
The council has closed sections of the path and is warning people not to try and walk along it.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A solution to flooding on the #Cambridgeshire guided busway is being urgently called for amid fears of another fatality on the route.
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/joggers...
www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/joggers...
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The ride theme was 'space' for cycling, with placards to match. A huge thanks to @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social for joining at the start and supporting the hundreds of parents & kids calling for action as well as being a city champion we desperately need to tackle #carspreading in the UK. 2/3
March 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The ride theme was 'space' for cycling, with placards to match. A huge thanks to @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social for joining at the start and supporting the hundreds of parents & kids calling for action as well as being a city champion we desperately need to tackle #carspreading in the UK. 2/3
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Once you see #carspreading you can't 'unsee it' so today @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @solveschoolrun.bsky.social helped us hear it too! Research shows new cars are getting bigger & bigger, taking more space and causing great harm to kids. A big wake up call to politicians 🚸 #streetsforkids 1/2
March 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Once you see #carspreading you can't 'unsee it' so today @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @solveschoolrun.bsky.social helped us hear it too! Research shows new cars are getting bigger & bigger, taking more space and causing great harm to kids. A big wake up call to politicians 🚸 #streetsforkids 1/2
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We have no railcards. And parking is free there. When we go with others its much cheaper to go in a car. I have issues with that.
March 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We have no railcards. And parking is free there. When we go with others its much cheaper to go in a car. I have issues with that.
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No way I'll ever know if that was COVID. It was totally COVID though.
March 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
No way I'll ever know if that was COVID. It was totally COVID though.