Cambridge Traffic

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Hello Cambridge type peeps. I'm a Romsey Town & then Cherry Hinton boy who emigrated to Nottingham.

Some Nottisham folks (who've always lived here) were moaning about the "horrendous" traffic. Made me laugh out loud. This morning at about 7.45 I drove about 2 miles from the ring road to the city centre in about 6 minutes. I reckon the equivalent in Cambridge would take going on for an hour?

I then walked back & photographed one of the main routes into Nottingham (Derby Road if you know it) about an hour later:



I still visit Cambridge reasonably regularly & wonder how you cope?

[Monkeylegend]

Push bike or Park & Ride.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Monkeylegend said:

Push bike or Park & Ride.

Bikes! Thousands

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I've just realised Herts is also in this forum.

We lived in St Albans too...not half as bad as Cambridge, but still tricky! (For such a tiny place)

[Monkeylegend]

Yea, we always use the Park & Ride from Newmarket Road.

Car parking is free there for 18 hours and it's £3 each, bus every 10 minutes and never takes more than 10 minutes to get to the Grafton Centre.

No point taking a car in, it's a very car unfriendly city centre imo, and the surrounding areas are full of nasty speed bumps.

And as for the so called rush hour, forget it.

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Monkeylegend said:

Yea, we always use the Park & Ride from Newmarket Road.

Car parking is free there for 18 hours and it's £3 each, bus every 10 minutes and never takes more than 10 minutes to get to the Grafton Centre.

No point taking a car in, it's a very car unfriendly city centre imo, and the surrounding areas are full of nasty speed bumps.

Can take a while to get to the P&R though I guess?

[Monkeylegend]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Monkeylegend said:

Yea, we always use the Park & Ride from Newmarket Road.

Car parking is free there for 18 hours and it's £3 each, bus every 10 minutes and never takes more than 10 minutes to get to the Grafton Centre.

No point taking a car in, it's a very car unfriendly city centre imo, and the surrounding areas are full of nasty speed bumps.

Can take a while to get to the P&R though I guess?

Not for us, we come in off the A14 from Newmarket, first exit and the P&R is about a mile or less in just before the Marshall car site. Usually drive straight in with no hold ups at all.

They even take contactless on the bus now

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Monkeylegend said:

Not for us, we come in off the A14 from Newmarket, first exit and the P&R is about a mile or less in just before the Marshall car site. Usually drive straight in with no hold ups at all.

Winner.

[Monkeylegend]

Even cheaper with a bus pass. I really should get mine.

[speedyman]

Got caught out this week last bus from city centre to Trumpington P&R was 20.30 cost me 12 quid for a cab, why stop the bus that early.

[donkmeister]

speedyman said:

Got caught out this week last bus from city centre to Trumpington P&R was 20.30 cost me 12 quid for a cab, why stop the bus that early.

Annoying, isn't it? We've had a few trips where we've decided to stay on for the evening so retrieved the car and driven back into the city.

15 years ago Cambridge wasn't too bad by car.

[AstonZagato]

I work in London and live in one of the villages outside Cambridge. I can sometimes get to Mayfair by train before my wife can get into central Cambridge.

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AstonZagato said:

I work in London and live in one of the villages outside Cambridge. I can sometimes get to Mayfair by train before my wife can get into central Cambridge.

My folks live in Cherry Hinton. Took them 40 minutes to get to Addenbrookes the other day.