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| Cllr Susan van de Ven (LD, Melbourn) |
A £5 million boost for Cambridgeshire Transport from Lib Dem Minister, Norman Baker has been welcomed by the county’s Liberal Democrats and Cambridge MP, Julian Huppert.
The funding will boost cycling, opening up new routes and improving cycle parking, and encourage people onto public transport in key areas of employment and growth across the county.
Julian said: “It is great to see a Lib Dem minister in government delivering on public and sustainable transport for Cambridge and the county generally.
“Norman Baker has shown time and time again that he genuinely understands the problems faced by years of neglect of our transport systems and infrastructure under the previous Labour government.
“In a short time, he has worked to put this right and we are seeing funding for real improvements on the ground. This money will make a big difference to the lives of people in Cambridge and across the county.”
Susan van de Ven, Lib Dem Shadow Cabinet Member for Transport on Cambridgeshire County Council said: “This funding is very welcome, badly needed and desperately important in a fast growing county where we need to avoid congestion and enable people to take up job opportunities.
"I hope that a strengthened public transport network in the county's more populated areas could also have a knock-on effect to more rural areas."
The Local Sustainable Transport Fund grant is designed to encourage people onto public transport, in key areas of employment and growth such as between Huntington and Cambridge, Northstowe and the Guided Busway and the Cambridge to Ely rail corridor.
The fund allows improvement to a whole range of transport interchanges and practical support for Travel for Work schemes.
It will support cycle parking at Cambridge and Ely rail stations and the Guided Busway and there will be some new cycle routes
“I hope the fund sees a bigger take-up of public transport as the best way of moving around the county,” added Cllr van de Ven.
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