Busway Experience
Sunday 7th
August 2011
The first day of the guided bus, a last minute decision saw us
leave Cambourne heading for St Ives to try and sample the just
opened guided bus.
The Sunday
service as we found out is hourly but with 2 operators should
be more frequent.
We left Cambourne soon after 10am arriving at the St Ives
Park and Ride park at 10-35am - having just missed a bus (it was leaving as we
arrived).
The next scheduled bus
to Cambridge was a Stagecoach at 11-03 and there were quite a
few people buying tickets
We have pensioner bus passes so did not have to buy a ticket.
Just before 11 am a whippet bus turned up (they were putting
on extra buses for the long awaited opening day).
We got on the bus but those who had bought
Stagecoach tickets were unable to get on.
Our journey in to Cambridge was quick as it gets, the bus can
travel at 57mph and on a Sunday no traffic.
Flags and bunting and waving onlookers
made the journey a bit of fun.
We arrived
in Drummer Street at about 11-30am and looked at a quick return
which as it happened was another Whippet bus in 10 minutes.
We got on the bus and headed back to St Ives arriving at 12-15pm.
Perhaps we were the first return passengers??
A drive back
to Cambourne and Sunday roast at the Monkfield arms at 12-35pm.
An interesting
morning with little effort - ideal for me at the moment
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