Comment 30638

By Mike (registered) | Posted April 30, 2009 at 12:28:52

I bike and train to work and it would be enormously helpful some days to board with my bike at Hamilton station.

Nevertheless the reason for the restriction makes sense - bikes crowding already busy trains during rush hour would be a pain.

A solution that has worked well for me is keeping a cheap bike locked up at work-side of the commute. That way I can bike-train-bike. Plus right when I started commuting this way they built all those new bike shelters - nice!

I like the way they address this in Holland - you buy a ticket for your bike. It keeps the trains from arbitrarily crowding with bikes, but you at least CAN take it with you when required. For example bringing the 'remote' bike home for maintenance. If the restrictions stay into the future then GO would do well to allow a 'bike ticket' during rush hour trains for individual special cases.

Permalink | Context

Events Calendar

There are no upcoming events right now.
Why not post one?

Recent Articles

Article Archives

Blog Archives

Site Tools

Feeds