a.twiddler wrote: ↑13 Sep 2023, 11:49pm You can reserve a seat and a cycle space now,
No, the vast majority of services do not offer cycle reservations.
but is there a guarantee that you'll actually get your bike on a train if the space is crammed with luggage, or an opportunist cyclist has got in there first unbooked? Just because you're paying for it, doesn't mean that anything will change.
I think the proposal is that a change in status to a right to and responsibility for carriage should be linked to the charge.
With train operating companies hell bent on making savings such as closing ticket offices, I doubt that they're too interested in improving services for cyclists. I suspect that given the opportunity, they'd rather not carry those nuisance bicycles at all.
Worse: there are frequent allegations that Sunak's Treasury and Transport ministers would rather not carry any nuisance passengers at all. Then they could finally enact all the long-blocked plans for conversions of railways to roads. Most famously
https://www.londonreconnections.com/201 ... onversion/ but I know of similar and worse in other towns.
MJR, mostly pedalling 3-speed roadsters. KL+West Norfolk BUG incl social easy rides
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