Seasons greetings everyone! I hope you will have a fun Christmas and summer break and also hopefully get out and about on your bike when you can too…
I’ll pop up an end-of-year review in a week, but certainly one of the recent hot topics has been the banning of bikes from bus racks. As this article notes, it’s really not helping a lot of people get around easily or improving our sustainable transport goals. Here’s hoping the matter will be resolved sooner rather than later…
Interestingly, we’ve had plenty of times in the past when attaching things to the front of buses wasn’t so fear-inducing. Regular reader Criggie dug out a few pics of a common sight in older bus services – prams…
Before you get too worried – no, the infants would have been taken out of them! But it seems a relatively low-tech attachment system to just have them slung onto a pair of simple hooks.
I’m kind of imagining how they might have swung back and forth as the bus accelerated and decelerated. But it’s also interesting to see that often they were obscuring the front headlights too…
Somehow we all survived (although the occasional pram was probably jolted free over a bump?) – I guess we all were a bit more lax about health and safety in the “good old days”. And these days, the design of modern low-floor buses certainly make it easier to wheel your pram onto the bus itself. Still, it’s another interesting reminder of how things are only as safe as you decide they are… Merry Christmas everyone!
Do you remember when we could put prams on the front of buses?