Stagecoach are introducing a number of changes to its Busway services from Sunday 19th May (originally planned for 2nd June, but brought forward just yesterday).
Details of the changes can be found on the Stagecoach website. What follows is a summary.
A. It was only on 14th April that the weekday service on this route reverted to running four buses per hour. Now this decision is being reversed, and there will again be only three journeys per hour along the route between St Ives and Trumpington.
B. Seven journeys a day, Monday-Friday, will operate to and from Long Road Sixth Form College.
C. This service is being withdrawn – but its trips will be covered by extended journeys on service B (see above).
Although these changes result in a 10-minute weekday daytime frequency from St Ives to Cambridge, unfortunately that statement doesn’t apply in the opposite direction, where the service has the same number of buses but at less regular intervals.
H. Again, Stagecoach are partially reversing a change implemented last month and are reintroducing a service, now “numbered” H, between Trumpington and the Biomedical Campus. This will run during morning peak hours only, Monday-Friday.
And outside the weekday morning peak, there is…
R. This new service will operate between Trumpington, the Biomedical Campus, and the Railway Station, Monday-Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Again, this is a partial replacement for the “short” journeys on the A which were withdrawn in April.
The revised Busway timetable can be found here.
Cambridge Area Bus Users 
so … two hours Addies to Hinchwhat was promised?!
Richard W
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You say: “The busway services are operated commercially by Stagecoach who are free to run whatever services they like, at whatever times they wish and decide the fares they will charge.”
That is PRECISELY my point
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It’s not a franchise. The busway services are operated commercially by Stagecoach who are free to run whatever services they like, at whatever times they wish and decide the fares they will charge.
There are, however, changes in the offing. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority are working on the business case for franchising (like Manchester has done) where all routes, times and fares are subject to contactual arrangements specified by the Combined Authority.
Before then there will be an Interim Enhanced Partnership which to ensure that the Combined Authority’s allocation of Bus Service Improvement Plan money from the DfT is carefully monitored and spent in line with legal agreements.
For more information on franchising, partnerships etc see: https://cbgbususers.wordpress.com/bus-franchising/
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The sooner the current franchise is replaced, the better.
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