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Video Recordings
Thanks to Antony Carpen for arranging the recording. The full video can be see here on his YouTube channel. The links below are bookmarks to the individual questions. Please feel free to just watch the answers to the ones you think sound interesting! You can also copy the links individually to post to social media.
- Question to Sam Davies, Queen Edith’s resident: “Why is all this so important to us here in Queen Edith’s?“
- Question to Sam Davies: “Have you got any initial thoughts about the three strategies and how they affect us?“ (Answers outline the three strategies being proposed)
- Question to Edward Leigh, Smarter Cambridge Transport: “What options might be considered that aren’t on the consultation survey?“
- Question to Andrew Munro, Greater Cambridge Partnership: “There’s a huge new town called North Uttlesford being proposed in Essex, bigger than Sawston or Cambourne, right near the proposed Park & Ride. Did you know about this and were you able to plan for it?“
- Question to John Meed, environmentalist: “What are the environmental and ecological differences between the three strategies being proposed?“
- Question to Andrew Munro: “Most of us when we think of busways nowadays think of a concrete track, but your illustrations show a conventional road; what’s it to be?“
- Question to Lewis Herbert, Greater Cambridge Partnership board: “There are no councillors from round these parts on the Greater Cambridge Partnership assembly or board, so how do we get our voice heard?“
- Question to Andrew Munro: “Have you considered following the route of the existing cycleway to the north of strategy 1?“
- Question to Andrew Munro: “How many people are brought into Cambridge through these three routes in the morning, and how do they get home again under strategies 2 and 3?“
- Question to Andrew Munro, with contributions from Sam Davies and Edward Leigh: “What are the projected decreases in car traffic?“
- Question to Andrew Munro, with contributions from Sam Davies and Lewis Herbert: “Given the rationale for not considering light rail because of the city size, are there examples of similar bus systems elsewhere?“ and “Is there a way in which we can not be so dependent on the whims of Stagecoach?
- Question to Andrew Munro: “How much land will need to be acquired for strategy 2, and what will be the cost?“
- Question to Andrew Munro: “Is £145M really reasonable for strategy 1, given the experience with the Guided Busway? Are we whizzing people in from further away from Cambridge than places like Sawston, and will this make Hills Road any less congested?“
- Concluding remarks from Lewis Herbert – “The transport in this area isn’t good enough. It’s a tricky balance but I do think a scheme is going to be needed and that it’ll benefit Queen Edith’s.”
- Concluding remarks from Edward Leigh – “Strategy 3, dumping all the buses at the hospital, has big questions as to what the impact on Queen Edith’s would be.”
- Concluding remarks from Sam Davies – “What’s going to happen when there’s a step change in employment at the Biomedical Campus at the end of 2018? None of this addresses that issue. I don’t understand what the decision making process is for balancing residential interests and the campus’s interests”.
- Concluding remarks from Andrew Munro – “I do understand that there are local concerns and we will do everything we can to address those concerns.”
- Concluding remarks from John Meed – “The reports on the research that I do are on my website!”