Thanks to George Alexander for alerting me to a news item on the Cambridgeshire County Council website here.
It's a proposal to spend £95,000 on providing solar powered lights for the busway cycle track - between Orchard Park and St Ives. Very handy, I'm sure. But how will the lights cope with being under water for 4 weeks a year?
The money is coming from the Cambridgeshire Sustainable Transport Fund, which is about 'Getting Cambridgeshire to Work'. The government has awarded £5m to be spent over the next 3 years.
If they are trying to get people to work, then, in my opinion, it would be better spending the money on raising the level of the track so that it doesn't get flooded every time the River Ouse bursts its banks.
Very brief piece about this in the is weeks Hunts Post (5 December, page 5) where it is hailed as 'fantastic news' by Councillor Ian Bates.
More information on Cambridge News website here.
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