| Re: Buses with racks go a long way
Wayne Pein wrote:
> Bill Baka wrote:
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>> No way. The buses are going to run either way, full or empty.
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> 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.
OK, you lead the way through the ghetto on your bike and after you have
been mugged you can spout off about your ride.
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.
Bull****. A bike rack is less than 0.5% of a buses weight.
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.
Around here they get used due to a lack of safe bridges over our two
rivers. Car friendly bridges yes, bike friendly, hardly.
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> 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.
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> 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.
Your mother must have dropped you on your head as a baby, repeatedly.
There are places where you would have to be nuts to ride a bike, but
maybe you would like to be the only white boy riding through a dangerous
neighborhood with 'people of color'. I popped off the freeway right into
the middle of the Watts riots in the 60's, and car or not I made a fast
U-turn over the middle divider back onto the freeway.
Some places you just don't want to be.
Does this sink into you hard head or not?
Bill Baka
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> Wayne
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