Route Selected For Cambridge Metro Link Between New A1307 Travel Hub And Biomedical Campus
The title of this post is the same as that of this article on the Haverhill Echo.
This Google Map shows the Fourwentways intersection between the A1307 and A11 roads, where the travel hub will be created.
The travel hub will be South-West of the roundabout, which I know well, as it was only a few miles from where I lived.
It will improve the bus connection between Haverhill and the Biomedical Campus and the City of Cambridge.
It would appear that the Stour Valley Railway, is being recreated by extending the Cambridgeshire Busway.
The closure of the Stour Valley Railway in 1967, was one of the most ill-judged of the Beeching closures, that were solidly backed by the government of Harold Wilson, who believed that everyone should have their own car and that railways wouldn’t be needed. They also believed that all goods should go by truck. Is that what you get, when your Transport Secretary is an ex-lorry driver and a former boss of the lorry-drivers trade union?
We now have a Government backing these two projects.
- The rebuilding of the Varsity Line between Oxford and Cambridge, which Beeching recommended for retention, but Wilson still closed.
- The extension of the Cambridgeshire Busway to Haverhill.
As with so many projects around the country, all these totally unjustified cuts are being reversed.
But these railways should never been closed in the first place.
Tories Win Blyth Valley
Wikipedia doesn’t say when Blyth Valley, last elected a Tory MP. But it was before 1950.
The Green Party seemed to have polled more votes than was expected.
It has been suggested that the railways through the area, which were closed in the 1960s, when Harold Wilson was Prime Minister, be reopened.
Did this have an effect?
If I was Boris, I’d make sure the railway lines in the area were reopened.
The Anonymous Widower 