Missed part one? Read it here!
The Guided Busway, the great innovation for Cambridgeshire’s public transport sysstem. Buses that run on specially built tracks to beat the traffic and on special biofuels to beat pollution. Brilliant. They did it in Adelaide. Apparently we cannot manage it here.
(note abandoned bicycle on busway)
The latest news is that there will be up to a further five years of delays (it’s been going for about five hundred years already). It has costs gajillions of pounds. The whole county is up in arms.
Me? I’m not that bothered because the busway has a cyclepath the whole way along it and makes my travels around Cambridge so much safer. Much rather be cycling along here than along the road.
Although it is probably the most expsensive cyclepath in the world….
I don’t post this purely for international readers to have a good laugh at the lunacy that is British bureaucracy (although that is one reason – seriously if this had been built anywhere else in the world it would have been finished years ago), but rather as an everyday lesson in looking on the bright side.
Life serves lemons and curve balls left right and centre. It throws us off balance. Our innate human natures, our Egos (capital E), make us want to sit down and have a big old moan, a big old cry, a big old shout about it. And that’s OK. Just don’t shout for too long because if you do you might miss the glorious alternative that is right in front of you.
Because who wants to sit on a stinky old bus when you could be cycling along next to this?
