CyRide’s “Rack ‘n ‘Roll” bike rack program officially started this week. The four new Gillig Low Floor buses (units 0819 – 0822) that arrived this summer came equipped with bike racks, and lane workers were adding racks to additional buses last week. The program is only a trial run, but its likely the racks will be here to stay. At this point only about a third of CyRide buses have racks due to space restrictions in the garage that is now at maximum capacity (the racks add one foot of length to each bus). So far I have driven two buses that were retrofitted with racks, but haven’t had any passengers use the racks yet. More information is at cyride.com.
September 13, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I don’t think this has been well-advertised to new students. If they work a bit harder in residence halls and at orientation to get the word out, I think a lot more students will be inclined to combine bus and bike routes from early on, reducing the number of later year drivers.
If they don’t start and stick with it early, I tend to think they’ll fall back on their car they left back home.