Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
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Mike Hughes writes:
blatant plug on
Any one travelling from London to Brighton who does not have any other
means of getting back to London contact me. I can take 2 bikes in my
London taxi.
Are those wonderful trains the PT weenies are always exhorting us to use
refusing to carry the cyclists back again this year?
Fraid so. They're also banning bicyles on many other trains in the South
of England and on Thameslink AIUI.
The Rail Passenger Committee (Southern England) looked into this last
year. We were assured that everybody taking part had been informed that
trains could not be supplied and lorries were put on in their place to
take them back to London. However 1,000s of bikes still turned up at
Brighton and RPC monitored the chaos that was caused and the disruption
to other non-cyclist passengers. This year Southern and Thameslink in
particular are trying to prevent cyclists from going to London for the
start and returning late afternoon evening because the scale of bikes
that take part is probably in the 10s of 1,000s it will be monitored
again. Their is a real problem here, the event has grown to a massive
scale with both official registered riders (who have no excuse for not
knowing the lorry arrangements) and many more how cycle along with the rest.
Chris Fribbins
RPC (SE) Member (until committees abolished at end of July)