Cambridgeshire guided busway

A Cambridgeshire County Councillor has just sent me a superb comment from the Cambridge News web site, by a reader (CleverRichard) summing up the latest twist in the infamous Cambridgeshire guided busway saga. It's so brilliant it just has to be preserved for posterity - perhaps on the plaque to be unveiled if and when the accursed thing ever opens.

"The cost of the guided busway (£180 million) now exceeds the amount of money spent making the film Inception ($160 million). However let's look on the bright side, years from now – long after the film is forgotten – Cambridge’s guided busway will be providing us with endless entertainment. It is a safe bet no week will pass without a CEN story about the trolley-folly to brighten our lives during an otherwise dull week. If the clay beneath the busway starts to shift we might even see Cambridgeshire's own version of a Parisian street folding over on itself. Even so it is worth pointing out that there is an important difference between Christopher Nolan's Inception and the Cambridgeshire County Council/BAM Nuttall project. One is a bizarre story about a group of people desperately trying to escape from a dream world of their own making and the other is a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio."

The latest story and assorted reader comments, including the above, are here.