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- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.soc
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!davevh
- From: davevh@microsoft.com (Dave Van Horn)
- Subject: Re: Seattle Metro busses to receive bike racks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.083611.14125@microsoft.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 08:36:11 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Lines: 13
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- Chuck Anderson writes:
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- >I've always wondered what it would be like to have bike racks on the outside
- >of the bus. Who has to secure the bicycle to the bus? Who's responsible
- >if the bike falls off and is damaged - or worse, causes damage to another
- >vehicle or the bus? I always figured that was too big an obstacle for
- >the transit organizations to surmount.
-
- Seattle Metro did a telephone survey of bikes on transit systems nationwide
- last year. Having read the report, the strongest impression it gives is
- that transit operators had many concerns beforehand, especially liability,
- but those who've actually tried allowing bikes on transit, inside or outside,
- report that basically *none* of the expected problems materialized.
-