| Re: Buses with racks go a long way
In <45c5459c$0$16750$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>, Wayne Pein wrote in part:
>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.
You think a 70 pound or whatever bike rack is going to do much damage to
the MPG of a bus that weighs 17 tons empty and still gets at least a good
few miles per gallon of diesel? Increase the weight of the bus by .2
percent or whatever, and the bus burns maybe a quart or a pint more diesel
per day?
What not enact anti-overweightness incentives for the bus drivers if you
have need to consider that amount of weight being added to a bus? How
about the advertisements and their holders inside and outside the bus?
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
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