Stagecoach East (Cambus) 27852 (AE13 DZY) in Brookfields, Cambridge - 27 Sep 2019 (P1040360)

Friday 27 September 2019 – From September 2019 to April 2020 a project to construct the UK’s first ‘Dutch style’ roundabout at the intersection of Queen Edith’s Way/Fendon Road/Mowbray Road in Cambridge is being carried out. Explanation of this may be seen via this link www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/travel-roads-and-parking/transport-projects/cycling-&-pedestrian-improvements/fendon-road-and-queen-edith-s-way-roundabout

As a result of this construction work Stagecoach service 2 has a revised format. Normally buses travel along Mill Road to Brookfields/Brookes Road/Perne Road and turn left to perform a double run up to and back from Sainsbury’s before continuing to Wulfstan Way and Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Service 2 operates every ten minutes between the city centre and Brookfields. The revised format sees alternate journeys either turn left and run to Sainsbury’s where they terminate or turn right and operate to Wulfstan Way where they terminate. No service 2 buses run through to Addenbrooke’s. The timetable advises passengers to change to a service 1 bus at Cherry Hinton Road/Derwent Close to complete such a journey. Service 1 also operates every ten minutes.

Service 114 operated by A2B Bus and Coach (Mondays to Fridays) and Big Green Bus Company (Saturdays) remain unchanged and are operating normally through to Addenbrookes although there are only four trips each way and no Sunday service.

In this view taken from on board A2B KX08 HMF we see Stagecoach 27852 (AE13 DZY), an Alexander Dennis Enviro300D new in May 2013, standing in Brookfields waiting to turn right into Perne Road on a working to Wulfstan Way. The Sainsbury’s bound services would turn left here.