Bikes on Caltrain

Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 Updated Apr 13, 2025
0

Editor,

I’m writing as a bicyclist on the Caltrain who has recently learned that the proposed electrified rail cars do not have planned seats within view of the bicycles. As a normal, paranoid-of-bike-theft person who has had four locked bikes stolen (fortunately none on Caltrain,) I neither leave my bike out of sight, nor do most of the other bikers with whom I commute daily from San Mateo to San Francisco. This typically leaves all the bikers jostling with non-bikers for the overhead seats on the old cars, or standing room only. Occasionally, I’m lucky enough to grab a top seat and look down on my bike. Other days, the bike car is full and I am bumped. With all this in mind, I urge Caltrain to reconsider the bike car layout and install plenty of seats within bicycle view, and provide plenty of room for bikes.

(0) comments

Thank you for visiting the Daily Journal.

Please purchase a Premium Subscription to continue reading. To continue, please log in, or sign up for a new account.

We offer one free story view per month. If you register for an account, you will get two additional story views. After those three total views, we ask that you support us with a subscription.

A subscription to our digital content is so much more than just access to our valuable content. It means you’re helping to support a local community institution that has, from its very start, supported the betterment of our society. Thank you very much!