Reinstate the 905 Bus Route
Cambourne has lost a critical bus route in the recent Stagecoach cuts
Cambourne has been cut out of the route of the 905 service which runs from St Neots to Cambridge.
This loss affects many people, most notably Cambridge Regional College (CRC) students from Cambourne, who have now been told that rather than go on a direct bus journey to CRC, they have to go into town and change buses. This transforms what was a 25-minute trip into 1hr 15mins +. Some St Neots students are also struggling because CRC has been dropped off the route in Cambridge too.
Another group affected are commuters traveling between St Neots and Cambourne to work in Cambourne Business Park. There is an alternative bus, the no 18, but it is circuitous.
Cllr Helene Leeming said, 'These changes should simply not affect people accessing their place of study or work in this way. While we understand the need for commuters to have the option of an express route to Cambridge, it should not be to the disadvantage of the people of Cambourne or the students of CRC. This is why I am asking Stagecoach to rethink their new route and to create a compromise on the timetable which would see every other 905 bus come into Cambourne and on to CRC, as it did before, rather than all the 905 buses bypassing our town.'
Reinstate the 905 Bus Route
We are calling on Stagecoach to amend the 905 timetable to alternate between express routes and partially reinstating the previous 905 bus route to ensure students and workers are able to travel to and from Cambourne.