to add as well that this is the third station for a small city; Cambridge North and Cambridge both have 'normal' parking, as do loads of other stations on the line. Just drive to one of the others. If you live south of Cambridge and want to commute on this line you'd probably drive to Whittlesford Parkway or Royston rather than going into the wrong city for no reason.

Even better headline: new £200m train station is already projected to be too small for the expected footfall but Network Rail wouldn't revise their figures before they built it.

I lived there. It's not just students. Loads of people commute by bike - it's the quickest way by a mile. It's only really recently that the council have done more than pay lip service to cycling, though; until then the local pop cycled in spite of the infrastructure rather than because of it. They have the UK's biggest cycle park at the main station but it's basically a shopping centre for thieves (bike theft is really bad all round Cambridge) so I think they've brought in a key-only area that you have to pay to use. Same at Cambridge North.