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The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway (also Cambridge-Huntingdon Rapid Transit Scheme, locally the Busway or the guided bus) connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It is the longest guided busway in the world,〔 overtaking the O-Bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia. Two guided sections make up of the route. The northern section, which uses the course of the Cambridge and Huntingdon railway, runs through the former stations of , and . The southern section, which uses part of the former Varsity Line to Oxford links Cambridge railway station, Addenbrooke's Hospital and the park and ride site at Trumpington, via housing on the Clay Farm site. Services are operated by Stagecoach in Huntingdonshire and Whippet Coaches, which have exclusive use of the route for five years in exchange for providing a minimum service frequency between 07:00 and 19:00 each week day. Specially adapted buses are used: the bus driver does not need to hold the steering wheel on the guided sections of the busway. A total of 2,500,000 trips were made in the first year of operation. Proposed initially in the 2001 Cambridge-Huntingdon Multi-Modal Study, which recommended widening of the A14 road and construction of a guided busway along the old railway lines, construction began in March 2007 and it was opened on 7 August 2011 after a succession of delays and cost overruns.〔 The original cost estimate of £64 million rose to £181 million by December 2010.〔http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cost-guided-busway-climbs-to181-million/story-22352322-detail/story.html〕 An independent review of the project was announced on 21 September 2010, in which the Cambridge MP Julian Huppert at the time described the busway as a "white elephant". A court case with BAM Nuttall, the main contractor, was settled by Cambridge County Council in August 2013.〔http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Guided-busway-legal-battle-with-BAM-Nuttall-settled-by-Cambridgeshire-County-Council-20130830105405.htm〕 ==Overview== The scheme links Cambridge, in East Anglia, with St Ives, Huntingdon and Northstowe (a proposed new town) to the north-west, and with the M11 motorway to the south. The route includes two sections of guided operation, a bus-only road and other places with on-street operation in conventional bus lanes. New park and ride sites have been built at Longstanton and at St Ives, with a tarmac cycle track/bridleway alongside some sections of the route.〔 The final scheme includes bus priority and real-time passenger information system displays at busway bus stops; and subsequent separate funding and works to better link those stops to local businesses for pedestrians and cyclists. A total of 2,500,000 trips were made in the first year of operation, which Atkins reported was 40% higher than the predicted figure. Bus ridership along the corridor was estimated to have increased by 33% over the same period.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cambridgeshire Guided Busway Post-Opening User Research )〕 Before opening, the contractor had predicted that an estimated 11,500 journeys per day would be made on the busway.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Smooth Operator )〕 The scheme was predicted to cause a direct reduction in traffic on the busy parallel A14 road of 5.6% (rising to 11.1% with the new Park & Ride sites), although as other traffic re-routes to the freed-up road space from other parts of the local road network, the net reduction is predicted to be 2.3%. The overall scheme was "not intended to solve the congestion problems on the A14" by itself, but will rather have an overall effect across the local road network, and be complementary to planned improvements on the A14. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cambridgeshire Guided Busway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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