Cambridge Fieldwork

I was struggling to find a cycle park at a sheffield stand in the city centre and I started chatting to someone I thought was unlocking her bike. She wasn’t, but she told me about Cambridge’s underground cycle parking stations that are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There are two; one in Park Street and another in the Grand Arcade . The cyclist said that the former was pretty safe place to park as the Bicycle Ambulance , a bike workshop, operated in this space so the bikes were under constant surveillance.

I found the Park Street cycle parking station easily marked and followed the signs to a multi-storey car park. In the basement I found spaces for over 200 bikes and bike lockers, charged at £10 a month.

There was also a poster advertising a scheme for swapping your bike for a stroller.