City Councillor media coverage

An incomplete list of media coverage from campaigns as a Cambridge City Councillor 2015-2019

Trumpington’s Guided Busway

In 2016, I purchased a radar speed gun to monitor speeds of buses on Cambridgeshire’s Guided Busway, which ran through my ward. A large number of buses were exceeding the speed limit - a fact which I publicised but did not gain media coverage until a crash, eventually attributed to excessive speed, occured the following year.

The resulting coverage, including on BBC’s “Look East” program, caused a number of measures to be introduced over the following months and years. Unfortunately, these measures were not in time to prevent the death of a cyclist in 2018.

2018

  1. Cambridge’s £17,000 guided busway speed camera ’unused’
    BBC Cambridgeshire, Jan 2018
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2017

  1. Who is responsible for safety on ’lawless’ guided busway?
    Ben Comber
    Cambridge Independent, Jun 2017
  2. Councillor buys speed gun to monitor Cambridge guided busway
    BBC Cambridgeshire, Jun 2017
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  3. Speeding Cambridgeshire guided bus crash driver sacked
    BBC Cambridgeshire, Jul 2017
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  4. Guided busway driver who crashed into wall to avoid cyclists is sacked for speeding
    Tommy Lumby
    Cambridge News, Jul 2017
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  5. Campaigner buys own speed gun to monitor buses on Cambridge’s guided busway
    Raymond Brown
    Cambridge News, Jul 2017
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  6. Guided busway drivers face speeding crackdown
    Josh Thomas
    Cambridge News, Aug 2017
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  7. Letters: Speeding is a real problem
    Zoë O’Connell
    Cambridge Independent, Jul 2017
  8. These are the new measures to tackle speeding on the guided busway after crash
    Tommy Lumby
    Cambridge News, Dec 2017