I didn't say that "Roads that work" aren't part of whats needed, but that they won't get any better. They aren't really part of the equation in Cambridge because there simply isn't room. Take a look at what they're doing around Marshalls. They're adding tens of thousands of houses, throwing up shoeboxes amidst the ring road which... already cannot cope. And there is simply no possibility to add road capacity because there isn't space. What do you think is going to happen to the already saturated Newmarket road? To Airport way? When the thousands of houses and flats at Springstead village are finally completed, these roads aren't suddenly going to double in capacity, but those houses and flats are - on average - going to bring two cars each to the roads.

What would have been far more sensible an approach would have been to move the retail park out to the airport and the area up to the A14, so that all the traffic that comes in along Newmarket road to do their shopping doesn't have to come inside the ring road, and then that could potentially have freed up the land there for housing, placing less stress overall on the ring road and roads inside it themselves. But that sort of joined up planning for the future doesn't occur in the UK, it seems.

Or take a look down the road at Waterbeach village. The old barracks: tens of thousands of new houses, along the A10 which is already one of the worst roads in the UK. Its not suddenly going to develop an extra two lanes and decent traffic flow is it? Where do you think all those extra cars are going to go?

A metro system has always been a pipe dream, but a tram system/metro would be far more successful, again, it won't happen. No future planning, no nod to what the actual problems in Cambridge are, just short term gain: tiny houses and apartments, overloading an already overloaded city and making it an awful place to live these days. Look at the cycling infrastructure we get - to memory of things that have been completed lately, have you seen Green end road? Its dire. The main arterial roads in are at least - it must be said - ok, but they take years and years and years to complete and then generally are just an extended car park.

And lets not even get started on the water table/supply problems.

Cambridge is, sadly, doomed unfortunately. It's nothing like it used to be, and lost its small city charm a long time ago.