One of the questions we asked within our survey was ‘how do people in your home travel to work?’.
Cambridge is home to the longest guided busway in the world, two rail stations (soon to be three) and miles of cycle lanes. Shockingly in our recent survey, 73% of respondents claimed that people in their home drive to work.
Travelling to work by catching a train appeared to be a popular method of transport, with 33% of those who answered our survey selecting ‘train’ as a method of transport. Cambridge is soon to be home to three rail stations, Cambridge, Cambridge North and Cambridge South. Cambridge North opened in the spring of 2017 in the suburb of Chesterton, the creation of the new station has enabling Cambridge residents to be better connected to Norwich, Kings Lynn and London. Alongside the new CB1 development surrounding Cambridge Rail station, Cambridge North is also undergoing redevelopment. Cambridge South is set to open in 2020 and will sit next to Cambridge Biomedical campus. No doubt the development of the new station will lead an increased popularity for travelling by train and might influence where you decide to move to.
There is no doubt that Cambridgeshire has excellent transport links, but only 3% of survey respondents said that the people in their home travel to work by bus. The Guided Busway connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives. The Guided Busway also runs through the Fen Drayton Nature Reserve, past the famous Cambridge Science Park and Addenbrookes Hospital. It is the longest guided busway in the world, and helps hundreds of commuters to get to work every day.
