Bonkers Busway Cambs News

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲❓ 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘴 𝘑𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 — fb.watch/DGFEi-E7ZP/?

Picture of Sir Parth Dasgupta planting Coton Loved Pollinator Sycamore Gap Tree of Hope sapling in Coton Orchard for start of Tree Week. Behind him are members of the campaign to save coton orchard and other community groups.

In @cambridgeindy.bsky.social this week

Sycamore Gap tree saplings to be planted across UK National Trust begins planting the 49 ‘trees of hope’ so the illegally felled tree can live on in a positive way

To mark National Tree Week & the close of the Inquiry, the Coton Tree of Hope was planted by Sir Partha Dasgupta, economist & President of Wildlife Trust BCN, a leading voice on the value of nature & supporter of the campaign to #saveCotonOrchard. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told Planned route linking Cambourne to Cambridge will go through one of county’s last traditional orchards

‘Sustainable’ Cambridge busway will cause irreversible ecological harm, inquiry told

𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝟐𝐂 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧.

The C2C public inquiry has lurched into its final week and the finishing tape is, at long last, wobbling into sight at the Belfry in Cambourne…

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲,
𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 www.facebook.com/share/p/1Pq4...

Woodland Trust officers taking measurements to prove veteran status of Coton Orchard century old trees.

The C2C Inquiry has been grimly eye opening. Tens of thousands in public funds buy hired “experts”. Most communities are without the help we’ve had from charities. If Coton Orchard cannot be saved when the scheme makes no ecological, transport or fiscal sense, what hope is there for anywhere else?

When is an orchard not an orchard 🍎🌳❓Apparently, when it stands in the path of a GCP busway 🚍💰 www.facebook.com/share/p/16tb...

Dusk to Dawn, Moths. Volunteers data gathering to help #SaveCotonOrchard

Like the government’s grand announcements of planting new forests & ‘nature recovery’ it’s the oldest trick, distraction so we don’t notice its destruction for private profit. Saplings will take decades of care, grace of nature, sun & water, to mature. While a century old tree lost in a moment 🌱🌳

Bonkers plan for one of the driest, hottest and most nature depleted county in UK 💧

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YouTube video by Bonkers Busway Cambs News Coton Orchard: Still Worth It

After a week of being pilloried by County barristers, we’re feeling a bit sensitive about the claims that Coton Orchard has no worth, no amenity and that the bonkers busway would somehow improve it. It’s not perfect and neither are we, but we care deeply and do our best 📺 youtu.be/iSy0z2pkvi8?...

Very eloquent, as is Mr Baker of Gough Way that followed. I hope the Inspectors go and stand in those roads themselves to see how they cannot accommodate the numbers of buses “imagined” (because they don’t do bus services) by the GCP to justify this scheme.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 £𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 🔐 C2C Inquiry Coton villagers take the stand 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 🔗 www.facebook.com/share/p/17B9...

C2C Inquiry: When you can’t defend the scheme, attack the objectors 🥊 Appalling tactics by Council KC 🔗 m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

Prof. Hirst was exceptional. The County KC shameful.

YouTube video by Bonkers Busway Cambs News Countryfile Speaks for Orchards — Will Councils Listen?

The Herefordshire @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @tobywildlife.bsky.social on BBC Countryfile explaining about the importance of Traditional Orchards youtu.be/mx7EvZP2Fos?...

Biodiversity loss for County Wildlife Site, net gain for the Council 🌳🪚🟰💰🗞️ www.facebook.com/share/p/1WLu... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Back-of-the-envelope calc: the £18m County has blown on experts and fees (so far) to defend the C2C bonkers busway route could have covered Arthur Rank Hospice’s annual funding for nearly 22 years (today’s prices, or 12–16 years once you allow for inflation) Priorities❓

𝐂𝟐𝐂 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝟖: 𝐆𝐂𝐏’𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐞 🌳🚌❌
At the C2C Inquiry this week, Miranda Fyfe showed the GCP’s busway for what it is: costly, pointless, and indefensible 🔗 m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

The Inquiry runs till 21 November, the Inspectors will give their opinion to the Secretary of State for Transport and she’ll decide on whether to grant the order and let County compulsory purchase the land and cleave Madingley Hill and Coton Orchard in two. Likely find out in 2026.

Report by @itvnews.bsky.social on the public inquiry into the £200m Cambourne to Cambridge (terminating in Grange Rd) busway 🌳🚌 ❌ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

BBC News reporting on Cambourne to Cambridge Busway Public Inquiry #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

Your Last Chance to Help Save Coton Orchard Wildlife Site A Public Inquiry into the controversial bus road is about to start. Can you help? For nearly a decade, conservationists and the local community have been making the case that it is unnecessary to dest...

🚍🔗 www.change.org/p/save-the-g...

While plotting a new wildflower meadow in Coton Orchard today, OTV Ben found a Rosy Knot-horn moth (Oncocera semirubella). Nationally Scarce B and of conservation concern. Luckily its larval food plants – bird’s-foot trefoil & clover – are thriving here 🔍🐝 Reason 263 to #SaveCotonOrchard 🌳🚌❌

Please Pay Attention, Else Next Spring Falls Silent fb.watch/BZgdwzvzj3/?

No, only reluctantly on X to help #SaveCotonOrchard, preferring mostly to be out under the real
blue sky 🐝

A moment in Coton…

What a day❗️Huge thanks to the organisers of the Coton Village Fete for all their hard work and to everyone who joined in the fun 🌻🐝 With proceeds shared with @cambridgeppf.bsky.social fighting fund #CotonAction