This is a great example of how not to set up bike parking at a train station.
Sad to say that most others are little better. Why oh why do local authorities go on about saving the planet, reducing our driving and improving our health by getting out of our cars, walk, cycle or take public transport when rubbish like this is what you get – and at the new Eurotunnel station.
As Andrea at Velorution points out 3 women have been killed by drivers with half km of the station in the last 12 months.
Come on Ken, about time you started to push business into getting with it as far as non-car transport is concerned. The congestion charge is one thing but only the start
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cathcam // January 23, 2008 at 1:24 pm |
Are the racks at least anchored to the floor? Are they still like this or was it a temporary arrangement when the station opened?
We don’t really even have a proper station here in Austin, although they are making big claims about being a top-eco friendly US city, they are testing commuter light rail, the citizens that live near the tracks are revolting!
The freight trains that rumble through town from the south and the Port of Huston are a site to see though, often nearly a mile long and stacked double height with containers. Great for keeping traffic off the roads, pretty green for moving freight, not so good though as they are full of things for consumption…
ragtag // January 23, 2008 at 10:19 pm |
May be it has changed now since it opened, I hope so – but I haven’t been.
I remember the trains in Canada when we used to go snowboarding – rumble rumble rumble – the first time we heard it thought it was an earthquake.