AAAARRRRRGGGGbllll pppphtt!Joined: 26 Aug 2006Posts: 725Location: In the lab.
Sound transit and community transit are also shifting to 3 bike racks.
I've been waiting for metro to get them.
However, I suspect that in a few years, the long reach buses will need more than 3 bike racks.
In Tacoma the link rail allows people to bring their bikes on with them, which is cool as a bike will not take up as much room as the shopping cart that a homeless person drug on to a metro bus the other day via the handicap lift. I believe (and I am sure Aaron will pipe in) that the light rail will have bike access.
Long distance commutes are really a place where bike commuting is waiting to explode. Off the fairies, at the end of the sounder. Light rail I think is going to do good in ways we don't expect for cycle commuting.
Jace
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:40 pm
Joined: 11 Oct 2005Posts: 601Location: Seattle
2 bikes per link train.
zero_k
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:11 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 11Location: Central District
Jace wrote:
2 bikes per link train.
I think 2 bikes per car (initially they'll run 2-car trains, but they can add up to 4 cars per train if they get crowded), if it's like the MAX trains in Portand, they have 2 hooks in the handicapped area near the doors, so you walk in and put your front wheel so it hangs vertically. But if a wheelchair wants on, you're supposed to give up the space.
Not only will you be able to put your bikes on a link train, but I think you'll also be able to use the elevator at the Beacon station to take you to the top of Beacon Hill. :-)
lantius
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:53 am
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zero_k wrote:
Not only will you be able to put your bikes on a link train, but I think you'll also be able to use the elevator at the Beacon station to take you to the top of Beacon Hill.
zooo booommmmb!
badhill
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:02 am
Joined: 28 Feb 2006Posts: 260Location: Boston
lantius wrote:
zero_k wrote:
Not only will you be able to put your bikes on a link train, but I think you'll also be able to use the elevator at the Beacon station to take you to the top of Beacon Hill.
zooo booommmmb!
see recent relevant post re: zoobombing.
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fuck bus racks, im going to chop off my legs, get me a 3 wheeled wooden wheelchair and skitch like ive got nothing to lose!
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