Bike park within Amazon and Microsoft's Cambridge office building located down several flights of stairs

The whole development at the train station in Cambridge is absolutely criminal. I'm not surprised at all by this.

Where I work, the bike racks are in the car park. Which would generally be fine, except that they are sandwiched between a row of parked cars and the wall, which means not a lot of room to manouvre bikes in and out of it without hitting either a car or the wall. Although it has a roof on it, it's not exactly the best of weather protection.

No surprise, though, considering whoever designed the car park saw fit to put the motorbike parking up 2 floors on the roof, rather than in the obvious place just inside the entrance which has been given over to 3 car parking spaces.

I work for a company that supplies, among other things, planning software - perhaps I should sneak in a few fields for cycling provision and some validation code that it can't be approved until they are all filled in...

By the way, this is not the Microsoft building, that's a few hundred metres away.
This is the Amazon, Thales, DeLoitte and Carter Jonas building.
Cambridge News don't proof read nor do they appear to have fact checkers.

Sorry for autocorrect errors.

The ramps alongside the stairs are painted and too smooth, so when wet, bicycle tyres just skid down.
And don't forget there's two sets of fire doors at the bottom, so close to the steps that the back wheel is still on the ramp, making it difficult to hold the doors, get the bike into the gap and then hold the next doors you finally make it into the bike store.

Do you see the push ramp on each side? It may not be ideal but it least it's safe and somewhere provided for bikes

PS. Here's the link to the blog post
https://cjhowell.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/how-not-to-build-cycle-park.html...

I work in that building.
The blog post featured in Cambridge News is all true.
The terrible design of the bike park access has been a massive nuisance to many, people with cargo bikes and heavy electric bikes have been really hacked off about it. The building managers have suggested people park nearby. The only nearby place is the station bike park, which has the highest rates of cycle theft, and it is known that the police can't be bothered to check the cctv!
Therefore some people have given up riding to work.

Paging the Stannah design department.

Are those meant to be ramps at the side of stairs, for you to wheel a bike up/down? Not sure how you wheel the bike around the corner??

Ah yes health and safety over reaction by organisations that accept cyclists can mix with motor vehicles outside on roads with speed limits of up to 70mph. But will not accept the 'risk on their premesis.

I've got a new proposal.

When designing/thinking about new building work and installing/improving any kind of cycling facilities (including roads/paths), it should be make compulsory to ask the opinion of at least one regular cyclist nearby (e.g. one of the cleaners/canteen staff or maybe someone off the street). And by asking their opinion, it has to be open questions and not some bullshit questionnaire that asks the wrong questions.

There - that should only add 5 minutes to any planning. How difficult is that?

Well it's no worse than the ridiculous designs and placement of cycle paths all over the UK. Archway has the most ludicrous layout, near Crouch end the bike path cuts through a bus stop, all over there is bad design, so to see this is expected. In Antwerp this is quite normal, there is a path on the left and right for you to take the bike up and down...I've seen worse in some offices I've worked in, like having NOTHING AT ALL!

There has to be a delivery bay with an access ramp for vans and trucks that service this buildings. Bike parking in the companies I've worked for are always accessed through that entrance. These buildings don't have one?

Service lift, perhaps?

If that's a new building all floors need to be accessible by a lift, so I assume they didn't install a lift, or if they did, its the wrong shape.

Or indeed is it an existing building therefore this may be the best they can do/non story?

Welcome to cycle planning UK style; anything will do as long as you can  pretend that cyclists have been considered, and it isn't just cycle parking in buildings, it's road design too.  Never mind that cyclists have to through umpteen sets of traffic light controlled crossings, very effectively deterring them, or are thrown out into the traffic stream at the most dangerous point, we've  ticked the box that says we've considered cyclists.

How about naming and shaming the architects?