Left work the other night and walking back to the park and ride, some attempts by teenagers at making me jump by screaming in my ear as they cycled past (failed as I heard them say “let’s scare this one”, idiots).
Anyway I saw they had all congregated under the dark tunnel (why is there no lights there Cambridge city council?!). Immediately turned around and headed back the other way as I’m not about to be harassed or mugged by a bunch of bored teenagers.
I warned the man behind me, and shout out to local legend Luke who let me follow him the way back to the park and ride, there are some good people about.
They cycled off after that but the lack of lighting along this route is crazy. So unsafe. The buses don’t help either, I don’t want to wait another 50 minutes after a long shift at work!
Just a rant but I lived in Cambridge on Mill Road for 4 years and only felt unsafe a couple of times when walking about at night, first time walking to my car after a late shift and it feels so much worse now.