If bicycles are banned from commuter trains, why aren't pushchairs?
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When I used to commute on the train it was like that - would get a few just holding them at the ends of the carriages.[TW]Fox;27486519 said:...
On everything else (ie, the overwhelming majority of train services) bicycles are stored either in bicycle areas within the main passenger coaches (For example on an XC Voyager there is a segregated area for two bicycles in Coach D, a passenger coach) or just in doorways and vestibules on other stock or on some units in the area where flipup seats are provided - flip the seats up and you have storage for bicycles of pushchairs at the detriment of seating position. This latter arrangement is the sort of thing you'll find on most inner suburban commuter services around London and the South East.
So you can stop shouting that everyone is wrong in capital letters now
A mothers options include getting a fold up push chair or carrying the child.
Have to admit I kind of agree with Skeeter
Full sized bikes are lot bigger than folding bikes, and buggies, prams etc. I use a folding bike on the train a lot. It would be impractical to have a full sized bike on a packed train at peak. Folding bike is no problem. Generally you don't get many buggies and prams on the train at peak commuting train. Even if you did you can often fit them on the luggage rack, or into a small space. I can fit my folding bike behind some seats and on some lower luggage racks depending on train type. But it will depend on the design of the specific train and how busy it is. Off peak on my route they allow full sized bikes.
I think you are trying to look for some flaw in logic, were its doesn't exist.
A mothers options include getting a fold up push chair or carrying the child.
Have to admit I kind of agree with Skeeter
There's also the option to travel outside of peak times if possible.
That comment of mine was about the suggestion that bikes are banned to remove sweaty cyclists, which it doesn't if folding bikes are allowed.
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You should also know the proper name is Vehicle Excise Duty.
I think he already knows that but still believes VED is actually Road Tax.
Can't get sweaty on a folding bike. Because you take the train to make it an easy cycle. Also you can't cycle hard on a folding bike. The people walking are sweating more.
Ironically the only people in this story not paying road tax are the mothers clogging up the train
. As there is no VAT on baby clothes and food, and of they are on the train with their kids during rush hour they are likely not working at that time so not paying income tax either!Ban them I say! Lol.