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Sarah,

Depends which college and how well you get on with the porters! Also,
it obviously depends on how much parking space they actually have -
not every college has a huge underground car park like mine!

Which would yours be then? Mine is the largest (Trinity) but parking is
quite limited, not that it affects me personally as I live in central
Cambridge anyway.

Some colleges obviously like to treat their graduates better than
others, in the hope of financial assistance when we all become
millionaires! Mine also gives free dining on High Table twice a Term!

Only four times a year for Trinity MAs but then the college owns much of
Felixstowe and Ashford (Kent).

Sam,

It's a REAL shame that the Park & Ride closes so early. It means I can
never use it, since if I want to attend dinner in College it's not
going to be available for my return journey. Even if they only
operated once an hour between say 8p.m. and midnight it would be
something.

It slightly depends on how late you want. There is late shopping on
Wednesdays so P&R runs later then.

However you will have a more relaxed time all round if you come by train.
Travel at the right times and you can take your bike on the trains as I do
in the other direction. Otherwise the Citi 1, 3 and 7 serve the station
and city centre until late. The Citi 1 even has a bit of a night service
at weekends (not by London standards, I know).

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Colin,

Mine is Queens' - not one of the richest by any means, but it
certainly likes to fete its graduates, with dining privileges,
invitation dinners, garden parties etc.

The University Centre also apparently has some free parking spaces for
graduates, but I have yet to try it. In any event, Queens' has always
been more than generous in its parking provision for me! Those rising
bollards in Silver Street still baffle me, though: if the object is to
prevent traffic from the obvious Trumpington /Silver Street
bottleneck, why force traffic down that very junction because it's
impossible to approach Queens' from Queens' Road?

I occasionally use a College guest room, but 4 or 5 times a year I
have use of a cottage in Babraham, so the Park & Ride would be
especially useful from there. I have recently noticed that bus 13 (or
13A) runs between Babraham and the city centre, but don't have the
confidence or trust to use it yet! Unfortunately, there's no easy way
of travelling to Babraham by train, so it's the car I'm afraid.

Marc.