Stagecoach’s citi2 buses will again serve Parkside from Sunday 14th April 2024.
Many years back, before the advent of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, Stagecoach’s citi2 route (towards Milton) stopped on Parkside, opposite the Fire Station. Then, as now, in the opposite direction (towards Addenbrooke’s) buses stopped at Mortimer Road (NaPTAN 0500CCITY370).
Cambridge Area Bus Users wondered, with the 905’s move to Drummer Street bus station releasing Parkside, Bay 16 (NaPTAN 0500CCITY476) whether this stop would be available for use by the citi2. So we asked. The response surprised us.
Rather than using Parkside, Bay 16, the citi2 buses will pick up and set down at the stop opposite the Fire Station – now known as The Busway, Parkside (0500CCITY117) – which was previously used.
Cambridge Area Bus Users welcomes this development as the stop…
- will be useful for Grafton Area shoppers, with a largely traffic-free walking route to Fitzroy Street, via Melbourne Place and Eden Street;
- will be of some use for passengers to/from Anglia Ruskin University in the evenings and weekends (when the access from Mackenzie Road is closed);
- will serve students, staff and visitors to Parkside College.
Cambridge Area Bus Users 
I would like the stops outside the former Maplins (now Savers) and outside St John’s College (in both directions) restored and for the Citi2 to turn right into Chesterton Road after going over Magdalen Bridge (And for the buses to run every 10 minutes.)
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