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 More options Jan 6 2008, 9:34 pm
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From: G-S <ge...@castbus.com.au>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:34:54 +1100
Local: Sun, Jan 6 2008 9:34 pm
Subject: Re: Crap respsonse from Connex about bikes on trains.
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
> In aus.bicycle on Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:13:29 +1100
> DJ <mrj...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> 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.

> I've seen elderly passengers being quite thankful for those.  Ditto
> people with prams.

> Long ago when I was young, Perth buses used to carry prams on racks on
> the back of the bus.  They stopped it, I believe because of the hassle
> the drivers had doing the loading and unloading as not all pram owners
> could manage it.

> When I was working in North Sydney I used to take the train home if I
> was late home of an evening and couldn't be arsed facing the hills.

> No point trying to get the bike on in peak hour though!

> I expect the 'bent wouldn't fit on a bus bicycle rack anyway.

> Zebee

Spot on Zebee... our feedback is that marginally mobile older passengers
(off peak mostly) absolutely love the newer low floor buses, and so do
mums with prams.

None of that is very relevant to peak hour bus usage, but that isn't the
pattern encountered with outer suburban/rural bus services anyway.

And as far as I can tell some bents would fit but others would not; long
wheelbase ones definitely not (the racks can after all be no wider than
a bus) but shorter wheelbase/larger wheel types should be ok.

G-S


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