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The city's bus and train networks could be completely overhauled within years as the stars align on a number of different projects.

The News today reveals for the first time all of the £750 million of schemes currently being considered for delivery under the landmark City Deal.

And it combines this with further schemes earmarked in the county council's long term transport strategy.

This includes three new train stations – at Addenbrooke's, Cherry Hinton and Fulbourn – as well as the delivery of east-west rail and a series of other improvements to the local railway infrastructure.

Tens of millions of pounds is also set to be spent on cycling projects over the next 20 years.

"Public transport infrastructure is rightly very much the priority of the City Deal schemes," said City Deal assembly leader Cllr Tim Bick.

"This high level of public investment will need to be accompanied by an ever stronger partnership with operators to ensure it results in improved services and improved network which the traveller is chiefly concerned about."

The City Deal could see as much as £500m of public money devolved to Cambridge to help tackle barriers to growth, notably transport and housing, over the next 15 years.

But politicians and business groups have urged Whitehall to give the city more power.

Cllr Lewis Herbert, City Deal executive board chairman and the leader of Cambridge City Council, said: "What Cambridge really needs is for the new Government to free up the City Deal partnership to plan, consult and spend the whole next ten-year £300m funding package in a single integrated hit – not be limited to the current first five years £100m ration, before we have to go back with forms filled in before obtaining the next funding portion.

"In addition, we need a single list of the essential wider Cambridgeshire road and rail projects, agreed and costed by the councils, to then discuss with all our local MPs, particularly our three new and determined Cambridge area MPs and our local enterprise partnership.

"As a united team, we have the best chance to win Whitehall funding for the strategic rail and road priority investments, justified by generating extra Treasury income from growth and far reaching benefits to the UK as well as to local residents and businesses.

"We need a sea change from the recent pattern of sporadic and often delayed local transport investments by Government, so that infrastructure matches growth and badly needed environmental improvements rather than blocking them both."

A spokesman for business group Cambridge Ahead also said the city's housing and transport problems were the key issues to solve.

He added: "We believe that even more can be done if Greater Cambridge receives more powers and control of funding from Government.

"We also want to see a new structure for local government that is more unified than the current two-tier arrangements.

"We want Government to go beyond the City Deal and devolve further, along the lines the Chancellor set out in his comments on devolution last week.

"With these changes in place, our city can build on the remarkable economic success it has generated over recent decades, whilst retaining the quality of life that allows us to attract the very best talent across the globe to work in our cutting-edge industries."

The 74-page transport strategy has been described as Cambridgeshire County Council's wishlist were it to have unlimited funding for transport measures.

Last week the News examined the potential highways improvements outlined in the plan.

The strategy was formally adopted this week after months of consultation and amendments and will support the county council's bids for external transport funding.

It is linked into mitigating an anticipated 98,500 new homes planned across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough over the next 20 years.

"It's a strategic document and it takes in broadly all the issues and challenges facing the area, particularly housing growth, and it looks at the transport interventions we believe are needed on the back of that," said county council transport chief Bob Menzies.

"You have to have a degree of ambition in these documents, but I would hope to deliver as much of it as possible in the time period.

"Stuff has come and stuff has gone over the years. A few years ago we were looking at what might happen with congestion charging.

"A lot of the same type of infrastructure is in this plan, but in terms of stuff going actually going on, such as the City Deal and rail in particular – the renaissance in rail over the past 20 years is really quite extraordinary – and the A14 work, I would say there has probably never been so much stuff actually happening."

SCHEMES ALREADY FUNDED

Cambridge Science Park station – Dec 2016 - £30m

Cambridge to Kings Lynn service increase in frequency to half hourly – 2015 - DfT / Thameslink franchisee funded

Thameslink service improvements - Trains from Cambridge to London to serve St Pancras, Farringdon, Blackfriars, London Bridge and destinations south of London including Gatwick Airport, plus bigger trains and increased number of seats – 2018 – DfT / rail industry funded

New rolling stock and longer trains on InterCity services between London and Peterborough (and potentially to Cambridge and Kings Lynn) – 2019 – DfT / rail industry funded

Half-hourly trains and more capacity on trains to Stansted – 2021 - DfT / Rail industry funded

Milton Road bus priority – By March 2018 - £23m

New West Cambridge park and ride and bus priority measures along Madingley Road (and possible cycling improvements) – March 2018 – Up to £60m

Bus priority measures on the A428 between Caxton Gibbet and Madingley Road exit – By 2025 – Up to £26m

'Project Cambridge' cycling improvements along Hills Road – March 2019 - £25m

Histon Road bus priority – March 2018 - £4m

Chisholm trail and new cycle bridge over the River Cam – March 2017 - £8m

A1307 park and ride and bus priority – By 2021 - £39m

OTHERS IN THE PIPELINE

New segregated bus lanes on Newmarket Road between Airport Way and East Road – By March 2022 - £43m

New Newmarket Road / Airport Way park and ride – By March 2023 - £12m

Cambridge orbital bus route: Addenbrooke's to Newmarket Road (£19m); Newmarket Road to Cambridge North train station (£65m); new developments in west Cambridge to biomedical campus (£23m) – By March 2025 - £107m

A10 Hauxton park and ride – By March 2021 - £17m

Hauxton park and ride to Trumpington park and ride busway – By March 2021 - £16m

Northstowe busway loop linking from the busway at the Longstanton park and ride to the busway at Oakington – TBC – Paid for by developer

Waterbeach station relocation to take bigger trains and improve access – Mid to late 2020s - £33m

Busway between new town at Waterbeach barracks and north Cambridge – Mid to late 2020s - £46m

A10 Waterbeach park and ride - Mid to late 2020s - £12m

Improving cycling and walking links between new town at Waterbeach barracks, Cambridge and surrounding villages - Mid to late 2020s - £12m

Cambourne and Bourn Airfield cycling and walking improvements to provide direct, segregated access to west Cambridge, Papworth Everard, Highfields, Hardwick, Caxton, Bourn, Caldecote, Comberton, Bar Hill and Dry Drayton – 2019 - £10m

March to Wisbech rail reinstatement – TBC - £50m-£75m

Comprehensive public transport along A1307 between Cambridge and Haverhill, possibly a busway parallel to the A1307 or along the old railway line – TBC – TBC

Cycling improvements including a third cycle park in Cambridge, improved surfacing, new segregated routes and clearer signage – TBC – £23m

Improvements to cycling and walking facilities between Haverhill, Saffron Walden and Cambridge – Late 2020s – £5m

A10 Cambridge to Royston cycle link – TBC – £7m

Electrification of rural rail routes in Cambridgeshire and surrounding counties – 2019-2024 – Network Rail to fund and deliver

A new station or rail halt at Addenbrooke's – Early to mid 2020s – TBC

Increase in frequency of semi fast and slow services between Cambridge and London from two to four trains an hour – TBC – Rail industry funded

Cambridge to Ipswich service increase in frequency to half hourly – TBC – Rail industry funded

East-West rail linking Cambridge directly to other growth cities like Milton Keynes and Oxford – Early to mid 2020s – Rail industry funded

New train stations at Cherry Hinton and Fulbourn – TBC – TBC

Reinstate the 'Newmarket west curve' to allow direct services to run between Ely and the new station at Soham to Newmarket and Cambridge – TBC – Rail industry funded

Kings Dyke level crossing replacement, Whittlesey – March 2017 - £16.5m

East Coast Main Line rail capacity improvements between Huntingdon and Peterborough – 2018 – Network Rail to fund

Provide segregated bus access to the end of the guided busway in St Ives between Wyton Airfield, Alconbury and Huntingdon – TBC – TBC

Easy bus access between Huntingdon town centre and Alconbury – TBC – TBC

A new station at Alconbury on the East Coast Main Line – TBC – Rail industry funded

A second transport interchange to the west / centre of Alconbury – TBC – Funded by developers

Hartford transport interchange to intercept car trips and provide access to bus routes between St Ives, Wyton Airfield, Alconbury and Huntingdon - TBC - TBC

Cycling and walking routes between Huntingdon, St Ives, Alconbury, Wyton Airfield and the surrounding ring of villages – TBC – TBC

Soham Train Station – March 2018 - £6.2m

Double tracking of railway line between Ely and Soham – March 2019 – Network Rail to fund

Improved parking and interchange facilities at Ely train station – 2018 – £1m

Improve bus journeys through Ely north: the closure of New Barnes Avenue to through traffic; a bus gate on Brays Lane; improvements to bus services and interchange facilities, particularly Ely City Centre, and real-time bus information and improvements to bus infrastructure – 2018 - £2.7m

Improvements to cycling and walking facilities between the Ely north development and the wider area – 2018 – TBC