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Lib Dem Candidate Calls for Action on Busway Frogs
March 24, 2010 12:19 PM
Jonathan Chatfield the Liberal Democrats' candidate for South East Cambridgeshire in the forthcoming General Election has called on Cambridgeshire County Council to explain how hundreds of frogs became trapped on the guided busway at Histon over the weekend and to be reassured that the busway has been designed to allow the migration of frogs across its tracks.
Jonathan explained: "On Sunday morning I witnessed hundreds of frogs attempting to cross the guided busway to reach the lake behind the Holiday Inn hotel at Histon and Impington, but they had to be rescued by onlookers as they became trapped in the concrete tracks.
"Local volunteers told me they had saved over seven hundred the previous day too.
"There is plastic sheeting along the busway at this point. But in many places this sheeting has been ripped down by the wind and fails to provide a barrier against small animals crossing the track.
"The county council makes great play that the busway is designed not to disrupt wildlife, but this incident suggest that frogs, other amphibians and even reptiles find it impossible to cross the tracks.
"If the buses had been running it would have been carnage."
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