Saturday, 26 December 2020
Rupert writes: We'd like to encourage everyone who uses the busway cycleway to contact their district councillor, their county councillor, and the Greater Cambridge Partnership and ask them for improvements to make it less susceptable to flooding. Here's some text you can use:
Dear Councillor. Once again the northern busway maintenance track and cycle
path is badly flooded rendering this popular route impassable. Flooding has
plagued this path since it opened and I am asking you to help to get it fixed as
part of the Greater Cambridge Partnership's stated ambition to promote sustainable travel.
Please
contact the GCP and ask them to bring forward proposals to deal with this
flooding issue. Our preferred solution is to raise the level of the low
sections of the path to a level that will keep the path open during most
flooding events. The aim should be to keep the path open most years and a
raised path should also be able to reopen sooner in the event of exceptional
floods.
Action is needed now as this busway cycle path is promoted as part of
the Greenways project and because the GCP Executive Board has approved the
scheme proposals and an outline budget of £7.5m for the St Ives scheme just a
few months ago (25th June 2020). So there is no reason for more delays. Let's
work together and find a robust, long term solution for the flooding as a top
priority for improving the St Ives Greenway.
Please send your message to your district councillor, your county councillor (contact details here) and/or the Greater Cambridge Partnership (contactus@greatercambridge.org.uk).