| Re: Buses with racks go a long way
On Sat, Wayne Pein <wpein@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>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.
Baloney.
>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.
I am not sure, but when reading this thread I
realized that I haven't seen the bike racks on the
front of local city buses for a year or more, I need
check that out.
It may be because I never saw a bike on
the racks at any time when I did see buses with
racks.
Frankly, it is a silly idea in many places.
Joe Fischer
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