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Cambridgeshire PCT Board Fail to Grasp Opportunity to Improve Out Of Hours GP Service
On the 26th of August 2009 The Cambridgeshire NHS PCT Board met in Cambridge’s Masonic Lodge. I attended Cambridgeshire NHS Primary Care Trust’s board meeting on the 26th of August 2009. One of the major items of business was to approve a specification for the provision of out of hours GP (and emergency dental) services […]
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Inept Police Target Traffic Jams During Botched Attempt to Tackle Speeding
PC Julian Haynes and his Cambridgeshire Police colleagues have been out looking for speeding drivers in Cambridge’s traffic jams. Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee will be meeting at 19.00 on Thursday the 3rd of September 2009. One of the things the city and county councillors for Romsey, Coleridge, Abbey and Petersfield will have on […]
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Stagecoach Managing Director Outraged at City Council Proposals to Confiscate His Business
At Cambridge City Council’s Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee on the 29th of June 2009 a paper was made available to the public containing an email from Andy Campbell, the Managing Director of Stagecoach Cambridgeshire. The Sustainable Communities Act 2007 has prompted the City Council to consider, and make central government aware of, what powers […]
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Chesterton Road Zebra Crossing – Lighting Maintenance Problems
The zebra crossing on Chesterton Road between Carlyle Road and the Jesus Lock footbridge has been an accident blackspot, however following the installation of fantastic quality floodlighting and orange LED halos around the belisha beacons (Zebrite Belisha Beacons ) the number of incidents appears to have been falling. From what I can glean from the […]
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Abandoned Cycles Clogging Cycle Parking at Babraham Road Park and Ride
There are lots of bikes parked around the Babraham Road park and ride site’s car-park, the official bike parking area is full. In the mornings as many people now cycle or walk from the site as get the bus. I recently visited the Babraham Road park and ride site and was a surprised to see […]
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Ideas Sought to Improve A Stretch of Milton Road
This stretch of Milton Road in Cambridge could be made safer. The photograph shows faded and battered cycle lane signage. At Cambridge City Council’s North Area Committee on the 2nd of July 2009 Cllr Boyce asked for ideas for how the council could spend some of its “Environmental Improvements” budget on Milton Road. I believe […]
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Giving Evidence to the Cambridgeshire Transport Commission
Cambridgeshire Transport Commissioners Brian Briscoe and Tony Travers heard from the police, academics, and city residents at a session on the 25th of June 2009. On the 25th of June 2009 the Cambridgeshire Transport Commission held an evidence gathering session in the University Centre. I was one of a number of Cambridge residents asked, on […]
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Cash Injection for More Affordable Housing Prompts Restart of Arbury Park Building Work
Some homes at Arbury Park are very close to the busy A14 dual carriageway. There are proposals both to widen the road and to build homes even closer to it. Building work has restarted at Arbury Park in North Cambridge; this has been prompted by a relaxation of the rules intended to ensure that the […]
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Cambridgeshire County Council – Party Leaders on the Congestion Charge
On the 2nd of June 2009 the Andie Harper show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire interviewed the leaders of the three main parties currently making up Cambridgeshire County Council. I submitted a question, which was put to the councillors: Conservatives in the City of Cambridge are opposed to the Congestion Charge, however Conservatives ruling the County […]