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Article #88Re: All-Hours Bike Carriage on BART
From: John Clear
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:12
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:12
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In article <Jym.21Mar2013.514bf66f@scorcher.org>, Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org> wrote: >=v= Somehow New York City has had no trouble with all-hours >bike carriage without pointless rules and restrictions (they >trust people to work things out): > >http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/nyregion/answers-to-questions-about-new-york.html > >So why has it taken 40 years for BART to contemplate doing the >same thing, only with less ridership? NYC subway cars have much more open space than BART cars, and New Yorkers are used to deal with all kinds of odd things on the subway. A bike takes up less space than a baby stroller, and is much easier to deal with than the escaped mental patients that wander the trains. John -- John Clear - jac@panix.com http://www.clear-prop.org/
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From: usenet@jac.users.panix.com (John Clear)
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Subject: Re: All-Hours Bike Carriage on BART
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:12:24 +0000 (UTC)
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