A section of Cambridgeshire's guided busway will be closed on weekdays for almost a month while safety improvements are made.

The northern section of the busway and maintenance track will be closed from 9.30am-4pm, October 13 to November 7 on Monday-Fridays between Gatehouse Road and Station Road in Histon. Cambridgeshire County Council said it will enable fencing to be installed.

The work is part of a series of improvements being rolled out across the busway network, including fencing and safety barriers.

The council was fined £6 million earlier this year after a judge ruled there was a “rigid and blinkered approach to safety issues” in the management of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, which opened in 2011.

In incidents that spanned across 11 years, health and safety breaches re

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