Web Images Videos Maps News Groups Gmail more »
Recently Visited Groups | Help | Sign in
Google Groups Home
aus.bicycle
+ new post
About this group
Subscribe to this group
This is a Usenet group - learn more
Message from discussion Crap respsonse from Connex about bikes on trains.
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Zebee Johnstone  
View profile  
 More options Jan 6 2008, 2:46 pm
Newsgroups: aus.bicycle
From: Zebee Johnstone <zeb...@gmail.com>
Date: 6 Jan 2008 03:46:30 GMT
Local: Sun, Jan 6 2008 2:46 pm
Subject: Re: Crap respsonse from Connex about bikes on trains.
Reply to author | Forward | Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author
In aus.bicycle on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:51:23 GMT

PeteSig <pete...@bigpond.com> wrote:

> "DJ"  wrote:

>> carriage and someone gets on the train with a wet bike with some mud
>> splashed up the side of it or just dirty water from the roads, rubbed up
>> against your suit or workclothes,

> And say you had a need to take your bike on a train, and had chosen a
> carriage that was not packed full?? And the bike was clean?

Except that the reason they are banned is because they are full.

Will you have an inspector who will check bikes for cleanliness before
they are allowed on?  Will you agree that if there are more than X
people on the train at any one time all cyclists are thrown off at the
next station?

>> or worse still, you get scraped along the leg with a sharp end of a pedal
>> or chainwheel or it rips your suit leg to peices, just because the bike
>> was in the carriage,

> Some people just lack gross motor skills, I know.

Some do, yes.  Elderly people, those with some varieties of MS, those
with injuries, those with some balance problems, some people with
Downs Syndrome, some people who are tired.

I am unsure why they don't count.

> One thing all our crap train carriages lack is overhead straps and rails, so
> that stops and starts are not such a threat. Why blame the cyclist? We had
> plenty of straps and open spaces in the old carriages of the 70s and 80s.

OPen spaces are usually about lack of people.  What's the population
of the city and the numbers using trains now compared to them?

>> 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


    Reply to author    Forward  
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2009 Google