Please note:
Smarter Cambridge Transport retired from front-line campaigning at the end of 2021. See here for details. This page contains coverage from earlier years.
Smarter Cambridge Transport receives frequent coverage locally, nationally and internationally – here are some examples from the first 3–4 years after we began. We also have a regular column in the Cambridge Independent, which you can read here.
2018
- AUDIO BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (13 August 2018): Cambridgeshire Guided Busway’s Disappointing Passenger Numbers
- Cambridgeshire Live (13 August 2018): Passenger numbers on the Guided Busway are barely half what was originally promised
- Cambridge News (5 June 2018): Mayor James Palmer will push to get Cambridge South station ‘as soon as possible’
- Cambridge News (5 June 2018): Calls to scrap huge planned road between Oxford and Cambridge
- Cambridge Independent (14 May 2018): There was no ‘deception’ of government over true Ely bypass costs, says Cambridgeshire County Council
- Cambridge News (11 May 2018): Government denies it was ‘deceived’ on costs of over-budget Ely bypass
- Cambridge News (8 May 2018): Cambridge to Cambourne busway should be scrapped according to newly powerful Liberal Democrats
- Cambridge Independent (22 April 2018): ‘Action needed now to avoid Cambridge Biomedical Campus gridlock’
- Cambridge News (14 April 2018): 5 ways south Cambridge’s ‘looming traffic crisis’ could be stopped
- Cambridge News (13 April 2018): Ambulances could be held up in traffic ‘disaster’ when new Cambridge biomedical campus opens
- Cambridge Independent (31 January 2018): Petition calls for rejection of Cambridge Metro report
- Cambridge News (29 January 2018): Could Cambridge get an underground metro?
- Cambridge News (29 January 2018): Could there be a new underground station on Parker’s Piece or Newmarket Road?
2017
- Cambridge News (6 December 2017): What angers people about the CB1 station development
- VIDEO Questions to the Greater Cambridge Partnership on removal of Park & Ride parking charges (22 November 2017)
- Professional Engineering – the IMechE Journal (10 November 2017): Traffic Unjammed: How smart, connected traffic lights are helping journeys flow
- AUDIO BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (21 August 2017): New Cambridge station will have NO car parking spaces
- Cambridge News (21 August 2017): New Cambridge station will have NO car parking spaces
- Cambridge News (18 August 2017): How to stop people driving onto the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
- VIDEO ITV News Anglia (27 July 2017): Further coverage of our report on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
- AUDIO BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (27 July 2017): Further coverage of our report on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
- Cambridge News (27 July 2017): Further coverage of our report on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
- VIDEO Greater Cambridge Partnership – Questions from Smarter Cambridge Transport on Milton Road (27 July 2017)
- Cambridge News (26 July 2017): Our report on the mounting repair bill for the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway
- Cambridge News (22 June 2017): ‘Parklets’ could transform the streets of Cambridge, say campaigners
- VIDEO Greater Cambridge City Deal – Hauxton LLF (21 June 2017)
- VIDEO Greater Cambridge City Deal – Milton Road LLF (13 June 2017)
- Cambridge News (11 May 2017): Readers not convinced ANPR traffic survey is key to solving Cambridge’s traffic woes
- Cambridge Independent (26 March 2017): South Cambs MP Heidi Allen says she will ‘stand in front of the bulldozers’ if City Deal off-road busway agreed
- Cambridge News (14 March 2017): Residents’ parking scheme delayed amid fears Cambridge’s poor will be hardest hit
- VIDEO Greater Cambridge City Deal Assembly (10 February 2017)
- Cambridge Independent (11 February 2017): Residents meeting reveals no-one present supports Cambridge City Deal busway
- VIDEO Queen Edith’s Community Forum: Cambridge Biomed Campus (1 March 2017)
- VIDEO West Cambridge Local Liaison Forum (02 February 2017): Statement on behalf of Smarter Cambridge Transport by Lynn Hieatt
- VIDEO Greater Cambridge City Deal Board meeting (25 January 2017): Questions on behalf of Smarter Cambridge Transport by Edward Leigh
- Cambridge News (24 January 2017): Residents-only parking schemes across Cambridge could help “civilise the streets”
- Cambridge Independent (20 January 2017): Cambridge residents face five-month closure of Hills Road when construction of cycle lanes start
- Cambridge Independent (20 January 2017): Controlling free parking on streets would make a difference
- Cambridge Independent (10 January 2017): ‘Clean air zone’ and emission charging on the cards as officers start to take air quality more seriously
2016
- VIDEO Greater Cambridge City Deal Assembly – Western Orbital (1 December 2016)
- Cambridge News (17 November 2016): Peak-time congestion control points
- Cambridge News (15 October 2016): Coverage of ‘Rebooting the City Deal’ event
- Antony Carpen video (14 October 2016): Coverage of ‘Rebooting the City Deal’ event
- Antony Carpen video (13 October 2016): Questions to City Deal Executive Board about Cambourne–Cambridge busway
- Cambridge Independent (2 October 2016): Responding to statistics on bike thefts
- Cambridge News (22 September 2016): Cambourne–Cambridge busway ‘recommended option’
- Cambridge News (20 September 2016): Seminar with Professor David Begg
- Antony Carpen video (19 September 2016): Question at seminar with Professor David Begg
- Antony Carpen video (1 September 2016): Question to City Deal Executive Board about eliminated scheme options
- Pan European Networks (August 2016): Interview with Edward Leigh about transport challenges and opportunities
- Cambridge News (11 August 2016): Our proposed new approach for the City Deal
- Cambridge News (13 July 2016): Declining bus passenger numbers
- Cambridge News (28 June 2016): City centre parking
- Antony Carpen video (27 June 2016): Question to Cambridge City Council about devolution
- Cambridge News (11 June 2016): Our challenge to City Deal plans for more city bus lanes
- BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (10 June 2016): Interview with Julia Greenaway on Dotty McLeod Breakfast Show (starts at 1hr 37min 55sec)
- Richard Taylor video (9 June 2016): Question to City Deal Executive Board about bus lanes
- Cambridge 105 (9 June 2016): Interview with Suzie Thorpe
- Cambridge News (29 May 2016): Reaction to latest City Deal proposals
- BBC Radio Norfolk/Suffolk/Cambs (19 May 2016): East Devolution Debate (contribution at 44 min)
- Cambridge News (13 May 2016): Girton Interchange not getting an all-ways junction
- Cambridge News (10 May 2016): Rapid growth in vehicles entering Cambridge
- Cambridge News (3 May 2016): Our survey of City Council election candidates
- Antony Carpen video (28 April 2016): Presentation at Newnham Residents Association meeting
- BBC Radio Cambridgeshire (8 April 2016): Interview with Chris Mann (starts at 1hr 11min 15sec)
- Cambridge News (8 April 2016): Launch of On-street parking petition
- Cambridge 105 (7 April 2016): Interview with Suzie Thorpe (starts at 35 min 15sec)
- Cambridge News (10 March 2016): Launch of Cambridge Connect proposals
- Cambridge News (25 February 2016): Proposals for Milton & Histon Roads
- Cambridge News (20 February 2016): Calls to upgrade the Girton Interchange
- Cambridge News (9 February 2016): City Deal spending on consultants
- Cambridge News (6 February 2016): Decongesting the inner ring road
- Cambridge TV (5 February 2016): Interview about Smarter Cambridge Transport ideas
- Cambridge News (27 January 2016): Parking controls
- Cambridge News (23 January 2016): Milton Road Residents Association meeting
- Antony Carpen blog (22 January 2016): Milton Road Residents Association meeting
- Antony Carpen video (21 January 2016): Presentation at Milton Road Residents Association meeting
- Cambridge News (18 January 2016): Our analysis of bus movements in the city centre
- Antony Carpen video (15 January 2016): Question to City Deal Executive Board
- Richard Taylor video (6 January 2016): Presentation at Hurst Park Avenue Residents Association meeting
2015
- Cambridge News (10 December 2015): Our paper on bus lanes
- Cambridge News (21 November 2015): City Deal Call for Evidence public session
- Cambridge News (25 November 2015): Our response to the City Deal Cambourne-Cambridge consultation
- Antony Carpen video (16 November 2015): Our presentation to the City Deal Call for Evidence
- Cambridge TV (12 November 2015): Public meeting about Cambourne-Cambridge consultation
- Antony Carpen video (12 November 2015): Presentation at Cambridge Rugby Union FC
- Cambridge News (12 November 2015): Notice of public meeting about Cambourne-Cambridge consultation
- Cambridge News (9 November 2015): East West Rail (Oxford–Cambridge)
- Cambridge News (3 November 2015): Cambridge car parks
- Antony Carpen video (3 November 2015): Question to City Deal Executive Board
- Cambridge News (14 October 2015): Our proposal for the Girton Interchange
- Cambridge News (16 October 2015): Our proposals for the Cambourne-Cambridge corridor
- Cambridge News (12 October 2015): Council’s response to proposals for solving congestion in the city
- Richard Taylor video (7 October 2015): Question to the City Deal Joint Assembly
- Cambridge News (11 September 2015): Various proposals for solving the city’s congestion
- Cambridge News (11 September 2015): City deliveries using bikes for the ‘last mile’
- Cambridge News (3 September 2015): Our launch and ten point plan
- Antony Carpen video (1 September 2015): Our launch at Cambridge Cycling Campaign meeting