Decision details

A1307 Three Campuses to Cambridge Bus, Cycle and Walking Improvements - Consultation Results and Selection of Preferred Option

Decision Maker: Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board, Greater Cambridge Partnership Joint Assembly

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

The City Deal Executive Board:

 

a)    NOTED the draft consultation report for publication on the Greater Cambridge City Deal website.

 

b)    Reviewed the preferred options and APPROVED further technical work to develop and refine them and other options, which improve public transport reliability, connectivity and access through park & ride expansion, proposals to deliver bus priority and increased cycling through improved infrastructure to support sustainable travel between homes and jobs, particularly:

 

(i)            Road safety enhancements between Linton and Horseheath.

(ii)           Improvements to signalised junctions and westbound bus lanes in Linton.

(iii)          Measures to improve bus journey times through Linton High Street.

(iv)         New and improved cycleways between Babraham and Great Abington/Granta Park.

(v)          A new park and ride site near the A11.

(vi)         A new westbound bus lane between the new park and ride site and Hinton Way roundabout.

(vii)        A new segregated bus route from the Babraham Road park and ride site to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC). Further work alongside future City Deal prioritisation work will determine if this route is to be on road or a new off road route;

 

(c)          ENDORSED  a second public consultation exercise on the preferred options  to commence in September 2017 after further workshops have taken place with the Local Liaison Forum and councillors, and AGREED that consultation materials be signed off by the voting members of the Executive Board.

d)             APPROVED a one-off spend of £25,000 to undertake some transport modelling, as part of pre-Strategic Outline Business Case work on the dualling of the A1307 between Haverhill and the A11.

Publication date: 14/03/2017

Date of decision: 08/03/2017

Decided at meeting: 08/03/2017 - Greater Cambridge Partnership Executive Board

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