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We arrived to Cambridge yesterday. Today I popped in a peculiar public transport system which combines the best of the buses and the rails: Guided Busway - or as the locals called it: Guarded Busrails The concrete tracks wide enough to buses to drive fast and safely without disturbance of the other traffic. Never seen such before • or knew that such even existed. No wonder. According to wikipedia the system was opened in August 2011. (Link and more info on the system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgeshire_Guided_Busway ) With our trip to the village my daughter is living, we also experienced the floods over here. Gosh, it was lots of water around. This blogpost was written in The Anchor, a public house in Cambridge after a tearful depart from our daughter. In many places the flood almost reached the tracks.

...in a night in a busstop full of people knowing there won't be place for everyone waiting. Screaming, fighting, elbowing. We saw those all in a full busstop when a bus to the destination arrived. Boxing Day underground strike caused a traffic chaos beyond all imagination. And in that chaos, all the manners were forgotten. In a boxing day I spent around £150 to taxis. They were also hard to get, but easier than getting in to the busses. The video gives you a picture of the rush: These photos are from the earlier point when it was still possible to get in to the Regent Street/Oxford Street. Gradually the most populated Boxing Day rush in Britain combined with the underground strike pulled aggressions in the surface. After watching the full buses to go by the stop and people idiotically fighting the place in the ones which stopped, we headed to hunt the taxi.