Object
Mitcham's Corner Development Framework SPD
Representation ID: 31371
Received: 14/10/2016
Respondent: Cambridgeshire Campaign for Better Transport
Failure anywhere in the document to make a plan for how buses would serve the area, even though it is stated as one of the strategic objectives under Theme 1.
At present people like me who live to the west have to traverse the whole length of the gyratory to get a Citi 1/2. Interchange between different routes is not provided and many don't serve the area at all.
I note that one of the bullet points, which I strongly support, calls for improved buses and pedestrian links to bus stops. Yet I see nothing in the document about how this is to be implemented.
At present all buses using Mitchams Corner serve Victoria Avenue. It would be best if there were a pair of bus stops there, but the street is probably too narrow for this. Based on the existing gyratory system (and therefore, I hope, able to be introduced within a shorter timeframe),
O would recommend moving the bus stop on Chesterton Road within the gyratory further east so that buses can pull out to turn right; and adding a new bus stop on the gyratory between Milton Road and Chesterton Road east. In both cases there seems to be ample room. One or other of these stops, which should be linked by a pedestrian friendly route, could and should be used by every bus serving the area including the X5 Cambridge-Oxford and guided buses, with the sole exception of inbound buses on the Citi 2.