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Colin Rosenstiel · March 25th 07, 05:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Jack Taylor) wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Okay, perhaps i was exaggerating a little. But still, the beauty
of the bike + train combination is that you can cycle at both ends of
the trip. Cycle parking is based on people not doing this.

Actually a lot of people use their "regular" bike from home to
their country station, then come into London and pick up an old
boneshaker that they have picked up cheap and which they leave
overnight in the terminus station cycle parking area, in order to
complete their journey - on the basis that if it gets nicked (as is
far more likely in London), then it doesn't matter so much. The
cycle racks at Marylebone, for example (which are on the site of
the old platform 4 and under constant CCTV monitoring) are often
more full overnight than they are during the day.

I see few or no signs of that form of commuting from Cambridge but I may
travel at the wrong times of day.

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Colin Rosenstiel