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🇺🇦Stay updated with Cambridge Connect's vision to see Light Rail introduced to the historic city of Cambridge!🇺🇦
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2016
Today we release our new video profiling light rail as a backbone of mass transit to support the Cambridge region. The network would connect key residential, commercial, education & health centres, joined up w trains, buses, active travel & Park & Rides: https://t.co/65k9PTuJVL
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In @CambridgeIndy we launch our #SciTechAwards, discuss #Cambridge tourism levy & explore 20-year vision for 50,000 homes. Mass transit for city, royal visit, @CUBotanicGarden Lights pic special, columns from @paulbristow79 @pippaheylings @CambridgePPF @CllrTimBick
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#RAILEAST Dec 2025 issue (24 pages) from @RailfutureEA can be read at https://t.co/Ru2upzsvt3. Lots of articles including the opening of Beaulieu Park station and behind the scenes of the NET tram system in Nottingham. Details of our Cambridge meeting on Sat 6 Dec at 14:00
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🏙️ Cambridge could see 50,000 new homes over the next 20 years – a “Second Cambridge”! Read our blog, explore the plan, and join the conversation before the public consultation opens 1 Dec 2025: https://t.co/SZEFro6QSd #GreaterCambridge #LocalPlan
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🚊ELY JUNCTION - RAIL MINISTER🚊 Met the Rail Minister to talk Ely Junction & the need for faster & more frequent trains between #Peterborough, #Fens, #Ely & #Cambridge 🙏 The business case right now is built on freight only. With the case for passengers - it’s unarguable 💪🚊
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🧵British cities outside of London vastly underperform their European counterparts Part of this is accounted for by lower housing density and almost non existent mass transport, like metros and trams So why not build more trams? Because in Britain we make it twice as expensive
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A Visitor Accommodation Supplement can enable the Cambridge light rail scheme we’ve proposed, including the tunnel. The Mayor of the Combined Authority should implement it without delay to deliver on 2025 election promise. https://t.co/GPJXjbHdtP
bbc.co.uk
Mayors will be given the power to charge tourists a tax for staying overnight in their towns and cities.
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To mark National Tree Week and the close of the Public Inquiry, the Coton Tree of Hope will be planted by Sir Partha Dasgupta, Cambridge economist and President of Wildlife Trust BCN, a leading voice on the value of nature and a steadfast supporter of the campaign to
theguardian.com
National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way
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Railfuture welcomes today's news that there will be more passenger services on East West Rail and also the arrival of Cambridge East station. Read on at
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Uppsala, Sweden, with a population similar to Cambridge, plans to invest £650M in a 17 km tramway with the aim of opening in 2029. It will connect residential, business & University areas with the main rail line & transport hubs - excellent plan!
mainspring.co.uk
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Excellent and extremely worthwhile double yellow line on Station Road Cambridge
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‼️ BREAK: Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge PULLS OUT of move to Cranfield, citing affordability issues. The land, off Newmarket Road had been earmarked for 7000 new homes, with the site cleared by 2030 Photo©️Marshall, Cambridge
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