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> I've seen elderly passengers being quite thankful for those. Ditto > Long ago when I was young, Perth buses used to carry prams on racks on > When I was working in North Sydney I used to take the train home if I > 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 None of that is very relevant to peak hour bus usage, but that isn't the And as far as I can tell some bents would fit but others would not; long G-S Zebee Johnstone wrote: Spot on Zebee... our feedback is that marginally mobile older passengers
> 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.
> people with prams.
> 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.
> was late home of an evening and couldn't be arsed facing the hills.
(off peak mostly) absolutely love the newer low floor buses, and so do
mums with prams.
pattern encountered with outer suburban/rural bus services anyway.
wheelbase ones definitely not (the racks can after all be no wider than
a bus) but shorter wheelbase/larger wheel types should be ok.