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 More options Jan 6 2008, 8:13 pm
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From: "DJ" <mrj...@bigpond.net.au>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:13:29 +1100
Local: Sun, Jan 6 2008 8:13 pm
Subject: Re: Crap respsonse from Connex about bikes on trains.
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"G-S" <ge...@castbus.com.au> wrote in message

news:13o12prolvglm72@corp.supernews.com...

> Zebee Johnstone wrote:

>>>> It's like on a bus, at no time are bicycles allowed on a bus due to the
>>>> tight confines of that type of vehicle.
>>> Yes, but they can be carried on external rails vis. Brisbane and
>>> Canberra buses

>> How many?  And how much time does it take to insert and remove?
>> Should other passengers have to wait?

>> Zebee

> I've been researching these... it's my estimate that we have sufficient
> 'slack time' in our timetables not to need to alter them.

> ie buses currently wait at main stops (waste time) in order not to be
> early.

> That is the case with a fair proportion of rural/suburban services down in
> Vic... not sure about NSW though, and it isn't the case in inner city
> areas either.

> G-S

That may well be in the slack periods early in the morning (first services)
and late in the evening (after 7.30pm or 8pm) and on some holiday periods
like it is right now but generally in my experience having been a Sydney
Buses driver for 18 years (not at the moment though) in those above
mentioned times, they tend to tighten up the timetable so they can get more
trips in per operating bus for eg. instead of doing 2 round trips in/out of
city per half shift, they'll be timetabling for 3 round trips.

I was up in Brisbane for 9 months recently and in that whole time i think i
seen 2 bikes on those front racks so i don't know if they have been a paying
proposition.
I think people have to realise that with buses, they try to cater for most
of the travelling public but it's bloody hard trying to cater for all
purposes.
I know when they first bought out those low floor wheelchair buses about 7
years ago, i think i have carried about 6 wheelchair passengers in 5 years.

DJ


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