Guided busway scheduled to open in August
Jul. 13th, 2011 01:01 pmhttp://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/transport/around/thebusway/
There's another proposed date for the opening of the Busway[1], less than a month off. Actual physical buses have been seen on it ("you wait for two years, and two come along, all at once...") The website has timetables and so on.
I wouldn't get your hopes up yet, but it sounds like they really mean it this time.
And more to the point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway#cite_note-bbc-handover-73), apparently Nuttal finished the busway to their satisfaction, and so the busway was finally officially handed over to the council, and then the council were free to hire someone else to fix it, which means that the council may still be in court trying to recover the costs from Nuttal (?) but the legal disagreements are (hopefully) no longer a prerequisite to getting it finished (hopefully, in fact, they've already DONE that, although I don't have a citation).
[1] The guided busway, commonly called the misguided busway. But honestly, if it exists, I'd rather it works than failed out of spite, even if I don't think it was a good idea to start with.
There's another proposed date for the opening of the Busway[1], less than a month off. Actual physical buses have been seen on it ("you wait for two years, and two come along, all at once...") The website has timetables and so on.
I wouldn't get your hopes up yet, but it sounds like they really mean it this time.
And more to the point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway#cite_note-bbc-handover-73), apparently Nuttal finished the busway to their satisfaction, and so the busway was finally officially handed over to the council, and then the council were free to hire someone else to fix it, which means that the council may still be in court trying to recover the costs from Nuttal (?) but the legal disagreements are (hopefully) no longer a prerequisite to getting it finished (hopefully, in fact, they've already DONE that, although I don't have a citation).
[1] The guided busway, commonly called the misguided busway. But honestly, if it exists, I'd rather it works than failed out of spite, even if I don't think it was a good idea to start with.