Comments on: Caltrain Bike Master ‘Plan’

By: Rose Montes

Rose Montes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:02:25 +0000

On October 22, 2008, I was on the Caltrain – San Mateo to Diridon. There was a Caltrain Rep on this train at 7:00 P.M., he had a list and he was crossing off how many bikes were departing at each stop, I asked him if Caltrain was going to start charging for bikes on the train. He proceeded to walk up and down the aisle of the bike car and counted 34 seats that he said were not being charged for. I then told him to look around and see that there were emplty seats all around us and what was the point. I also reminded him that there has been a bike car on Caltrain for a number of years and why now are they considering a charge for bikes. I also told him that most of the people who ride their bikes have cars and are not poluting the Freeways. He had no answer as we came to another stop and he continued counting. I did, however, let him know I was going to reiterate this to everyone I was in contact with on the train to get their opinions or to see if they had even heard about this “bike charge.” There is so much controversy on taking public transporation so that we can add to less polution on the Freeways, now they want to charge us for this. I don’t understand, will the CEO lose his penison or maybe this should go to the State of California and Federal Transportation whom I understand are involved with some kind of funding toward Caltrain.

By: blog.fogel.ca » Caltrain adopts Bicycle Access and Parking Plan

blog.fogel.ca » Caltrain adopts Bicycle Access and Parking Plan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:47:04 +0000

[...] the bigger picture, this more than awesome. Caltrain heard our comments, saw the 2.6k+ signatures the SFBC collected and dropped in front of the board, and is listening! [...]

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blog.fogel.ca » Strings Attached — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:59:22 +0000

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By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:46:22 +0000

Don’t other countries have “bike cars” for the express routes? Get some cars made more for herding and bikes…