Cambourne busway

Cambourne busway

A long-running Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP) project to create a new high-quality bus route between Cambourne and Cambridge via the West Cambridge site. Also known as the Cambourne to Cambridge project. Please see their homepage for more details.

In 2018 it was decided that the Cambourne busway would not run along Madingley Road and instead follow an off-road route south of the road. Most likely this route would cross the M11 on a new bridge and pass through Charles Babbage Road before veering south and reaching Grange Road via some undetermined option parallel to Adams Road.

Since a consultation in 2018 it was largely believed that the busway alignment would follow the Rifle Range route to the south of the University Sports Grounds as this would keep the buses separate from other traffic for the longest possible extent.

In August 2019 officers began to discuss a possible change of alignment to run buses along Adams Road instead because of disputes with colleges they encountered while planning the Rifle Range route.

On 17 September the GCP held a 'drop-in consultation session' at Clare Hall where they presented several drawings showing a busway running into Adams Road.