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Far be it for me to be an apologist for the guided bus but …
It can’t be a 2 lane bus only road because there’s insufficient width.

Everything else Donald says is just about spot on!

The first is technical – and its about speed. The old railway bed was of limited width, so if you want to get a cycle/pedestrian area, and a two way road, then that road is going to be narrow, much narrower than a conventional road. So, buses using the route may be limited to the speed at which they could travel, and would certainly be limited to the speed at which they could cross.

A plus, of course, of the design is that less of the area is covered by concrete or tarmac – there is some grass – and that makes drainage a great deal simpler.

A second answer might be that the County wouldn’t have got a subsidy it has from the Government for building another road …

And yes, the guide way adds a whole stack of interesting challenges – but the guide wheel components are relatively cheap for breakdown vehicles, gritters and possibly even emergency vehicles – though they may be able to use the track without them.

What about those pedestrians that cross the busway quite legally at the many crossing points? Over the last few years, they’ve all got used to wandering across without having to look out for the mythical buses. They’ll have to retrain themselves to actually look out for traffic, and some warning would be nice.

As ‘stute’ commented, the key to success of Histon for ten years was Steve Fallon, but unfortunately the club became a victim of its own success in some ways, that was not Steve’s fault.

It suddenly seem to adopt illusions of grandeur which accumulated with the appointment of a new director, who had no interest in the ‘community’ that had held the club together for so long. Consequently Steve was outrageously sacked, a new manager appointed (who in turn only won 3 out of the remaining 22 games) and now he is being shown the door. Also the team were decimated after numerous contracts were relinquished, not only upsetting the remaining fans but also causing a major upheaval within the club. Under the instructions of the director a group of protected trees were also torn up from around the ground to make way for ‘training facilities’, that infuriated the Histon community and isolated the Club even more from local supporters and residents.

Histon will never be as big as Cambridge Utd or City, its not meant to be. It should however be a place for the ‘Community’, and they should be content with that. There is no team left at the club at this time, there’s no ‘funds’ for quality players, because many of the supporters have been driven away along with their income to the club.

Their only viable option now, in my opinion, is to accept ‘administration’ and drop into lower leagues, re-appoint Steve (if he would, after being treated the way he had), and build the club up again from scratch and hopefully the bridge it had with the community.