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Carrying bikes on buses makes sense in rural areas

Brian Dalton Purley Surrey CR8
02 October 2020
 

The topic of bike carriage on buses needs to be discussed in a careful and nuanced manner. Dave Holladay reminds us that buses carried bikes in the boot in years gone by (ibid). This was quite common in rural areas. This is a wholly reasonable situation and in rural settings I think many people would back a modern arrangement of racks on the front or back of buses or, indeed a small trailer. Urban buses would not need to be fitted in the same way because journey profiles are much shorter and...

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