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All five Park & Ride lines — PR1 Madingley Road, PR2 Newmarket Road, PR3 Trumpington, PR4 Babraham Road, PR5 Milton — now show their live bus positions, read from the Department for Transport's open bus data feed and refreshed about once a minute. Each line also carries how often it runs and a link to its timetable. The page says plainly when a line has no bus reporting, which is normal between journeys and overnight. It does not guess: a position older than ten minutes is dropped rather than shown, because a bus that stopped reporting eight hours ago is worse than no bus at all. Fares and parking are on the page too: since 22 February 2026 an adult return is £4.50 and a short hop return £3.80, up to four children aged 5 to 15 travel for £1 each with a paying adult, and parking is free for up to 18 hours. A ticket only works at the site you bought it at.

Collections in Cambridge are set per address, not per street, so a town-wide calendar was never going to be right. The new tool asks for a postcode, lists the addresses on it, and reads that address's real dates from Greater Cambridge Shared Waste's own service — blue, black and green, with the council's own words for what goes in each. You can also ask for an email the evening before. This one had been on the list since Cambridge went live in July and was marked blocked: we could not find a bin-day-by-postcode source we were allowed to read. It turns out Cambridge city addresses are answered by the South Cambridgeshire service, because Greater Cambridge Shared Waste is one shared service across both councils. Checked across CB1 to CB5 before shipping. Weekly food waste caddies are being rolled out across the city in phases through 2026. No caddy shows up in the dates yet; when your round starts, the council writes to you, and it will appear here.

A colored-pencil drawing of punts on the River Cam along the Backs, with a low college bridge, trailing willows, and the pinnacled towers of King's College Chapel behind.

Cambridge is on Town Tools, with five tools to start. **River Cam & drought watch** shows how the Cam is flowing compared with normal for the time of year — a live Environment Agency signal of how dry things are getting — alongside Cambridge Water's hosepipe-ban status. It's reading very low right now. **What's my council tax?** breaks a Band D bill down across the six bodies that share it and shows what each pound pays for. **Cambridge: what's changing** gives the plain state of the things people keep looking up — the hosepipe ban, the Mill Road bus gate, the guided-busway speed limit, the Market Square rebuild and the coming council reorganisation. **Getting started in Cambridge** answers the questions new arrivals ask most, from bins and GPs to parking permits and bikes. And **Cambridge picks** is where residents share the good independents, a dentist taking NHS patients, where to live and who to call — and vote on each other's answers.