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Hello Bicycle Commuters and Supporters,
Bad news. At yesterday's Caltrain board meeting, the board unanimously approved staff's faulty recommendation for bike-car layout, which increases the risk of bike theft. And the board broke its promise made in 2015 for more bike capacity on electric trains.
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Email the Caltrain board and let them know how you feel about their decision as bike commuters, voters, and citizens of the Bay Area.
Faulty layout approved by the board
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Electric trains will have only 7 folding seats within view of 36 bike spaces and 72 bike spaces per train. Today's diesel trains have up to 34 fixed seats within view of 40 bike spaces and 77 bike spaces per train on average.
What a step backwards. Instead of designing a good layout for bike cars before they are built, Caltrain will be faced with expensive retrofit costs when the design fails in the field.
Thank you to all who wrote emails to Caltrain, letters to the editor, handed out flyers, signed our petition, and spoke up at public meetings. It's shameful that a public agency like Caltrain didn't listen to their loyal customers. We hope Caltrain becomes more customer-focused in the future.
Report All Bicycle Bumps
Please report all bicycle bumps (even if you are not one of them) using Caltrain’s bicycle bump report form, which automatically sends a tweet @CaltrainBikes. Caltrain claims bumps are going down. Please keep reporting!
Please forward this email to other bike riders and anyone who cares about bicycle commuting. Thank you for your continued support!
More bikes, no bumps,
Shirley Johnson
BIKES ONboard Project
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