Posts Tagged ‘ Tyne & Wear Metro ’

April Fool: Bikes Are Not Allowed On The Metro

April Fool: Bikes Are Not Allowed On The Metro

The Tyne & Wear Metro doesn’t allow bikes. Apparently non-folding bikes are uniquely dangerous, although the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Authority can’t supply their risk assessments that led them to this conclusion. And despite years of lobbying, the Metro’s operator, Nexus won’t consider even a limited trial either. So in response to this “Metro...
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Tyne & Wear Metro: I Throw My Cycling Gloves In Your Face.

Tyne & Wear Metro: I Throw My Cycling Gloves In Your Face.

We all know that bikes aren’t allowed on the Metro. DB Regio & Nexus won’t even entertain a trial off-peak. In the absence of proper, hard empirical evidence, they must have done a whole bunch of risk assessments. In fact, I’ve put in a Freedom of Information Request for two of these, and I’m sure they’re even...
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Bikes On The Metro

Bikes On The Metro

So last week I went along to a conference organised by DB Regio and Nexus - the operators of the Tyne & Wear Metro. The title was, “Improving Cycling Plans for Tyne and Wear Metro Conference 2011“, and you could be forgiven for thinking that this meant a discussion about what people with bikes...
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