Cambridge Annoys Bus Passengers
Yesterday, I wanted to go to the football at Ipswich, but as there is no decent place to eat near Portman Road and I didn’t want to travel out in the rush hour, I decided to go to to Cambridge for lunch and then have a drink with an old friend at Thurston, just outside Bury St. Edmunds.
I haven’t been to Cambridge for a few months and when I got there I found I couldn’t find the bus stop to get me to the centre. I had missed the only information in the station.
Bus Information At Cambridge
There was nothing else and no-one to ask.
I did find a fellow passenger, who showed me to the stop, but she added the new stop position, meant that she regularly missed her train, because of there being no drop-off in front of the station, as there used to be.
It does strike me, that the new traffic layout at the station has been designed to get the buses out of the way of cars and taxis. But then how many councillors and City officials responsible for signing off the new layout actually use the buses.
I think with Cambridge’s unique traffic problems and large numbers of visitors, that something better could have been done.
But whatever is done, some better information in the station is needed.
The Anonymous Widower 