A guided bus - in Cambridge they will not
look this cool or this yellow.
Cambridgeshire county council have always for a long time obsessed with traffic planning. The thing they're most excited about though, is their planned super-futuristic 'guided' bus system that will link Cambridge and St Ives. During my two years in Cambridge I've never actually heard of anyone going to St Ives but apparently there are lots of people who do indeed go there. The council thought that re-opening the train line that exists between the two was far too dull an idea and decided to go with something a little more exciting! Well, as exciting as a bus on a concrete track can be. Anyway, the reason I was posting is that, after recently talking about the guided bus, a strange coincidence occurred.. Hugo was down on the river the other day and a guy started talking to him. His name was Arthur Henderson and he mentioned that he was an inventor. Turns out he invented the guided bus! Back in 1965! I found a posting he made on a mailing list where he explains where the invention has been used in the past and why he believes the scheme is a "wasteful deployment of a future asset" and a "gross interference with the infrastructure for Cambridge's transport strategy for the future". So not even the inventor thinks it's a good idea.
Oh I found some other examples of guided bus systems around the world on Wikipedia.
