| Re: Buses with racks go a long way
Bill Baka wrote:
> No way. The buses are going to run either way, full or empty.
If nobody rode busses, there would be no busses. Thus, it is appropriate
to allocate an energy/pollution penalty to each user. There is no free
lunch. You are either a motorist or a non-motorist, and a motorist is
either a chauffered passenger or the driver. Further, any bus with a
bike rack on it is heavier and thus gets worse gas mileage than one that
doesn't whether it gets used for carrying a bike or not. I'm quite
certain that the bike racks on any given transit system are used for
only a small percentage of the system's trip mileage.
The use of
> a bus makes perfect sense when you consider that you can take one past
> the most dangerous part of town and drop you at a safer location. Nobody
> should be so into the bike that they willfully put their life in the
> hands of motorist who could care less.
> It's called 'Survival instinct'.
> It's also nice to fall back when the weather opens up and wants to dump
> on anyone caught in the open.
There indeed may be times when one might want to be a chauffered
motorist or a driving motorist, but that does not negate the fact doing
so is being a part of the motoring system. One can justify it however
one wants, whether that be fear of boogy men behind the wheel or long
distance or foul weather or the need to carry cargo or whatever.
Wayne
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