bike access on BART in SF bay area

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Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on July 28, 2011 at 10:52pm

This is my favorite bit from that article:

 

But more crowded systems like the New York City subway, Radulovich pointed out, allow bikes aboard at all times and rely on “a common sense rule.”  

“You don’t take your bike on if it’s too crowded,” he said. “Someone will yell at you. I think people in the Bay Area are both a little more polite and tend to be more rights-conscious.

“That whole ‘common sense of how to share space’ thing, we’re not as good as New Yorkers are at it because we don’t live in crowded conditions.”

 

I love New York.  They just yell at you.

 

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Permalink Reply by Sue Clark on July 28, 2011 at 11:31pm

At least on the CTA you can take bikes on elevators. As I recall with BART, they wanted you to only use the stairs, no elevators or escalators. Don't know if that's changed in the past few years, but it was kind of a pain on some of the downtown stations that had a lot of stairs.

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Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on July 29, 2011 at 8:02am

Somewhat off topic but I havent been to SF for a long time; does Bart still have those cushion style seats on the BART that stink in the summertime?  I always thought that was strange to have padded seats made out of a material that absorbs fowl odors...

 

Regarding the Portland rack style parking - awesome.  I was impressed by how slick this was the first time I was on the train out there and a strapping young buck came in and swung his bike right over me onto one of those racks and flopped in a seat effortlessly.  Im jealous too.

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