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In aus.bicycle on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:51:23 GMT > "DJ" wrote: >> carriage and someone gets on the train with a wet bike with some mud > And say you had a need to take your bike on a train, and had chosen a Will you have an inspector who will check bikes for cleanliness before > Some people just lack gross motor skills, I know. I am unsure why they don't count. >> It's like on a bus, at no time are bicycles allowed on a bus due to the > Yes, but they can be carried on external rails vis. Brisbane and Canberra Zebee
PeteSig <pete...@bigpond.com> wrote: Except that the reason they are banned is because they are full.
>> splashed up the side of it or just dirty water from the roads, rubbed up
>> against your suit or workclothes,
> carriage that was not packed full?? And the bike was clean?
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 Some do, yes. Elderly people, those with some varieties of MS, those
>> or chainwheel or it rips your suit leg to peices, just because the bike
>> was in the carriage,
with injuries, those with some balance problems, some people with
Downs Syndrome, some people who are tired.
> One thing all our crap train carriages lack is overhead straps and rails, so OPen spaces are usually about lack of people. What's the population
> 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.
of the city and the numbers using trains now compared to them?
How many? And how much time does it take to insert and remove?
>> tight confines of that type of vehicle.
> buses
Should other passengers have to wait?