[sustran] Question about a Bikes on BRT (?) scheme....

Todd Edelman edelman at greenidea.info
Wed Dec 27 07:51:02 JST 2006


Hi,

In the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jctlibmCssQ&mode=related&search=

at 4:45 - a few seconds after Jaime Lerner says "guts" - there is a shot
of a bus with what I think is a front-mounted bicycle rack.

If anyone knows where the image was recorded and could provide contacts to
the operator etc.,  it would be great. Being able to put bikes on the
front of buses here would be a good thing - it is allowed in North America
but EU regulations dont allow it. So, I want to see how it was allowed
wherever that shot was taken.

Several Czech traffic engineers have told me that the reason why the front
racks are not a problem in the USA is because there are no (or fewer)
pedestrians there, and so the racks wont make the buses more dangerous.
Like a shish kabob. Pretty funny.

Even if there were more injuries, I think there would end up being net
gains in health because the scheme would encourage more people to ride
their bikes (gains through exercise) and get some to not put their bikes
on the roofs of their cars (gains through less pollution).

Thanks,
T

Here is a Quicktime video which shows someone putting a bike on a bus in
the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) system:

http://www.sfbike.org/download/resources/muni_bikerack.mov

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