Texbiker.net » Commuter bike rack http://www.texbiker.net/blog Texas Bicycling Events, News, Experiences Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:35:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Houston Light Rail Cars: No in Car Bike Racks http://www.texbiker.net/blog/2008/12/23/houston-light-rail-cars-no-in-car-bike-racks/ http://www.texbiker.net/blog/2008/12/23/houston-light-rail-cars-no-in-car-bike-racks/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:53:06 +0000 Rick Ankrum http://www.texbiker.net/blog/?p=1477 from Bikes on Houston’s Light Rail

For over a year, BikeHouston and Citizens Transportation have worked to get bike racks installed on the coming METRO light rail trains, which would’ve made bikes + light rail an unbeatable intermodal combo.

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For over a year, BikeHouston and Citizens Transportation have worked to get bike racks installed on the coming METRO light rail trains, which would’ve made bikes + light rail an unbeatable intermodal combo.

Despite letters from Judge Ed Emmett, all four Republican and Democratic Harris County Commissioners, and other public officials, METRO is going to place orders for the new trains on Christmas Eve 2008… without any in-cabin racks for bicycle. Our contact at the FTA, the funding agency for the trains, is extremely concerned, but FTA cannot compel METRO to order trains with bike racks.

It looks like we’ve failed at this point.

link to more information at Bikes on Houston’s Light Rail



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