Stagecoach X5 All Things To All Men, Women And Bicycles

摘要

Can you think of an 85-mile journey on the same coach that runs as fast as any service in the country, yet diverts to be a town bus, is the only attractive public transport link between half a dozen towns and a couple of cities, runs every half hour and up to 20hr a day and you can take your bicycle along? Stagecoach East's Cross County X5 between Oxford and Cambridge is one, which spans the outer Home Counties and helps make solid an aspiration called 'The Oxford-Cambridge Arc'. Arcs are about building business, educational and cultural links between towns and cities that have something to share, or that one town has more of than the other, such as jobs or higher education. When I worked for the county council in Cambridge, quite a few other towns, seeing Cambridge's job creating power, rather fancied building arcs to that city. This particular arc has knowledge-based credibility, a structured management set-up, achievements under its belt and a website -oxford2cambridge.net -to explain its aims.