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Is public transport ready to embrace cyclists?

Bus industry urged to launch national policy on cycle carriage during Environment Week

Robert Jack
26 August 2009
Stagecoach is encouraging owners of folding bikes to use its local bus services
Stagecoach is encouraging owners of folding bikes to use its local bus services

 

Cyclists and public transport have not always had an easy relationship. Bus and train operators have traditionally viewed them as a nuisance (some, perhaps, still do), but there are signs that attitudes are changing. Brian Souter, chief executive of Stagecoach, has a reputation for being able to predict which way the market is going. He believes that cyclists are a key market for the future of public transport.

“Cyclists are not the enemy,” Souter told a bus industry conference in...

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