All-Hours Bike Carriage on BART

[Jym Dyer]

=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?
<_Jym_>

P.S.: An all-hours pilot project has been going all week to try
out this very thing. Notice all the headlines screaming about
what a disaster it's been? Me neither.

[John Clear]

In article <Jym.21Mar20...@scorcher.org>,

Jym Dyer <j...@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 - j...@panix.com http://www.clear-prop.org/

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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.