We Have Electric Buses...
Akirasho
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... as well as diesel.
YAY!
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I'm a bit worried what happened to the rider of that bike that's stuck on the cowcatcher...0
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Haha you can live in a wright state.
Shame he ran over the cyclist though
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
I'm a bit worried what happened to the rider of that bike that's stuck on the cowcatcher...Haha you can live in a wright state.
Shame he ran over the cyclist though
... silly Brits.
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Aki my son, the children have to have fun.0
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How often do you see those bike racks utilised Aki?0
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I used to take these all the time when I was living in Slovakia. They're old, but accelerate far faster than a diesel bus. Going downhill was an, er, "interesting" experience, they bounce quite a bit and when you come up to a corner it always feels like the driver's going to lose traction.
Where are your pictures from?0 -
Akirasho wrote:
Rta! Well you can't say they don't warn you now can you?0 -
Those aren't electric buses - they are trolley buses!
The bike racks are great - I saw them in Portland Oregon and they were very well used there.Faster than a tent.......0 -
Rolf F wrote:Those aren't electric buses - they are trolley buses!
The bike racks are great - I saw them in Portland Oregon and they were very well used there.
We have some university hopper buses in Nottingham (operated by a different company from the one I work for might I add) with those bike rack thing's on. Never seen one used yet.The only disability in life is a poor attitude.0 -
How often do you see those bike racks utilised Aki?
... fairly often though I'd suspect that more often by "casual" cyclists as nutcases like me would only use one as a bailout after some epic ride (most areas of the city and surrounding metroplex are accessable by bike and I ditched my car 3 years ago).I used to take these all the time when I was living in Slovakia. They're old, but accelerate far faster than a diesel bus. Going downhill was an, er, "interesting" experience, they bounce quite a bit and when you come up to a corner it always feels like the driver's going to lose traction.
Where are your pictures from?
Dayton, OH, USAThose aren't electric buses - they are trolley buses!
... around here, you'd have to be Old Skool to call 'em trolley buses. Indeed, in our city's past, we had both fixed rail and free roving "trolleys". There are examples of both in a local museum but anyone born here in the past 40 years would call 'em Electric Buses... you old fart!
The bike racks are great - I saw them in Portland Oregon and they were very well used there.
Hindsight... I can remember that there was a tad of controversey when the RTA (Regional Transit Authority) first put racks on a few buses on high density routes during the warmer months. Now, every route bus has a rack year round. I guess we learned... it's a decent service with little cost past initial purchase and installation. The only caveat is... the RTA takes no responsibility for loss/theft or damage (very rare but I doubt you'd wanna hang your Pinarello Dogma out there unless it was a dire emergency).0 -
How did I end up here looking at gaggle of buses
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