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Article #89Re: All-Hours Bike Carriage on BART
From: SMS
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:02
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:02
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On 3/22/2013 12:12 AM, John Clear wrote: > 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. NYC does discourage bicycles during peak commute times. NYC trains come at very close intervals so the system capacity is much greater, and since the system is so much larger there is much less of a need for a bicycle to complete a commute. There's also a lack of safe bicycle parking which discourages train/bike commutes, as well as a lack of elevators or escalators in most stations.
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