[hisimp-chat] Citi 7

[Sue Free]

My mother in law uses the bus service to get from New Road to the 
village green as she could not otherwise walk that far and would be 
housebound.  Luckily, this will not affect her, but clearly it could 
affect similar people living at the other end of Impington.  Not all 
journeys end up in the centre of Cambridge.

I am completely shocked by the apparent attitude.  I thought we were 
assured at some point that Citi services would not be affected by the 
Guided Bus, but I must have dreamt that.

Berie - we need a bit Histon Courier Campaign I think!



Sue Free,


geoff.grayton at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Stagecoach and other public transport companies have forgotten what is meant by 'Public transport' i.e tranport for the public. Quick journeys are all very well for those who have cars and can use 'park & ride' but the C7 service should be all stops along the route to enable wheelchair users and all limited mobility people transport in to Cambridge at reasonable cost and at reasonable time intervals. I am a daily user of the C7 and witness many people struggling to get on and off the buses. I was particularly struck when A friend of mine had difficulty walking and used the c7 to get from Cottenham road Histon to Firs House Surgery Impington for an appointment. THis journey will not be possible under the revised turntable (as I understand it).
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> Geoff Grayton Email: geoff.grayton at ntlworld.com
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> ---- Berenice Mann <bezbez at ntlworld.com> wrote: 
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>> I think that there will be plenty of options for those wanting a quick journey to Cambridge and no stopping – they can use the Park & Ride or the Guided Bus.
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>> The C7 should be there to take on the local journeys. I can’t see any reason not to reduce the service to every 15 minutes off-peak, especially if Stagecoach are running empty buses during off-peak, but they need to keep the village well served.
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>> The old service, 104, 105 & 106, used to take different routes, some going to Station Rd but not New Rd, and others going to New Rd and Impington Lane but not Station and Cambridge Road. This was very difficult as you had less choice of bus to hop onto depending on where you were in the village. Doing the ‘loop around’ was Stagecoach’s solution to this when C7 was introduced and it works well, allowing access to all parts of the villages.
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>> As others have said we need to ensure less mobile residents can access the doctors surgery, dentists, and shops easily.
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>> Perhaps we need to have some sort of petition to present to the company so they can see strength of feeling over this. I would be happy to sign a paper or online petition which presented the united village view on this.
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>> Kind regards
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>> Berenice
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>> From: hisimp-chat-bounces at the-hug.net [mailto:hisimp-chat-bounces at the-hug.net] On Behalf Of John Dover
>> Sent: 21 October 2009 22:57
>> To: Chat about Histon and Impington; hisimp at the-hug.net
>> Subject: Re: [hisimp-chat] Citi 7
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>> Denis
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>> How naive is the operations manager of Stagecoach? Of course everybody wants a chauffer-driven car from their front door to the shop of their choice. The whole point of public transport is to follow Benthamite utilitarian principles of the greatest good for the most people and the least harm to the fewest people. If that means delaying your arrival in town by five minutes so that an extra ten people have the opportunity to use the bus,that seems to me to be a reasonable price to pay. I am not sure that I would be too comfortable with the thought that my five minutes saved was at the cost of somebody being isolated because they were too far from a bus route that had been revised purely for my benefit because I was a member of a vocal minority group whose wishes happened to coincide with the convenience of the bus company.Is there no social responsibility to factor in to the equation?
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>> From: Denis Payne <denis at dwpayne.net>
>> To: hisimp at the-hug.net; Chat about Histon and Impington <hisimp-chat at the-hug.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 21 October, 2009 21:25:52
>> Subject: [hisimp-chat] Citi 7
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>> All - and again apologies for duplicate mails.
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>> The saga of the Citi 7 is ongoing. The local message is that this is a disaster, there'll be people housebound as a result; students at Camtrust won't be able to get there, or back home; students won't be able to college; people won't be able to get to the library or Post Office - but its not the message that's getting through to the County Council, or probably Stagecoach. They're getting the message that this is actually a good idea!
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>> We've also had this from the Operations Manager, Andy Mears, of Stagecoach:
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>> ”We have had many customers over a long period of time approach us here at Stagecoach and request a more direct and faster route in and out of the City. A vast number of residents in the area have bought to our attention of their dissatisfaction to the circuitous route on Station Road and Cambridge Road hence the changes to the service in the area.” 
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>> So, please follow up the contacts on http://www.hisimp.net/opus1694.html, phone the County Contact Centre on 08450450675 and make your voice heard.
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>> And for those hoping to get on the Guided Bus to go to Aldi or anywhere else on Histon Road - note that the first stop after Orchard Park will be Shire Hall - it may be a bus, but it's not a stopping bus!!
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