An early morning-late afternoon shuttle service to Meldreth Station is now on the horizon. Royston and District Community Transport is prepared to provide this for groups travelling to the station first thing in the morning and back at the end of the day. The job now is to find out who would be interested. RDCT recommend that villages with a likely high demand – particularly Bassingbourn and Whaddon – conduct a household transport needs survey to understand the strength of demand and cost out the options. The idea would be to start in September. The service would need to be paid for, but there can be economies of scale.

As discussed at the new Cam Vale Bus Users’ group last month, should a commercial provider put forward a proposal to run a shuttle, RDCT would welcome this – but as our local community transport provider they are also prepared to step in and get started.

I’ll be taking this update to parish councils this month. A knock-on benefit for Meldreth would of course be a reduction in peak-time traffic.

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