What is Making Connections? Making Connections consultation (www.greatercambridge.org.uk/making-connections-2021)
Making Connections asks for your thoughts on our proposals for transforming public transport, cycling and walking and reducing pollution and congestion.
We’re proposing:
- A new bus network, offering more frequent services, with longer operating hours, more rural connections, and new routes into our growing employment sites. You can find out more in the consultation brochure.
- Creating space for improvements to walking and cycling and our public spaces
- Options for raising money to pay for improvements to the transport network.
Why do we need to act?
Our area is facing many pressures over the coming years and we need to reduce traffic levels by 10-15% on 2011 levels. The pressures include:
- Continued growth of traffic and congestion, as more people live in and travel to our area for work;
- Limited choices for people to travel by public transport;
- Poor air quality, with 106 deaths each year in Greater Cambridge attributable to air pollution;
- High levels of carbon emissions due to high levels of car use, contributing to climate change;
- A city environment dominated by the car, which discourages some people from walking and cycling and makes our public spaces less attractive;
- Difficulty accessing opportunities for those who rely on public transport.
We need a better public transport system to ensure that most people have a quicker, more convenient and reliable journey than by car. We need to make more efficient use of road space and significantly increase the number of sustainable public transport vehicles on our network, as well as creating better environments for people to cycle, walk or just spend time enjoying our public spaces.
Tuesday, 14 December 6.00 – 8.00pm
- Making Connections consultation (www.greatercambridge.org.uk/making-connections-2021)
- Brief update on other GCP schemes including Waterbeach to Cambridge, Milton Road, Histon Road and Greenways
To attend this event, please register on https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eDQ1GoKmSZKFBo7pAdIw1w
Each event will be recorded, and recordings will be available to watch on our YouTube Channel.
More information on the Greater Cambridge Partnership and our projects can be found on www.greatercambridge.org.uk.
If you have any questions on these events or need help with registration, please do not hesitate to get in touch via contactus@greatercambridge.org.uk
