Cambridgeshire’s BRT plan is a vast waste of money

Why is there this mania for bus rapid transit? LTT of 29 March reports the particularly lunatic 88-mile reserved bus network proposed by consultant Steer for Cambridgeshire (‘Cambs BRT network takes shape’). 

The reported cost is between £3.69bn to £4.5bn, providing a mid-range estimate of roughly £4bn. That amounts to an astonishing £45m per route-mile, or 20 to 40 times the cost of a single carriageway road. Even if the cost was the same as an ordinary...

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