Editor,
Thank you to Caltrain for planning a public process on car layout for electric trains, and for planning to run seven-car (instead of six-car) electric trains.
Editor,
Thank you to Caltrain for planning a public process on car layout for electric trains, and for planning to run seven-car (instead of six-car) electric trains.
I would like to urge Caltrain to maintain the board-mandated 8:1 ratio of seats-to-bike spaces. Note that today’s diesel trains average only 77 bike spaces and, as a bike commuter, I get bumped from morning trains about two times per month in all but the rainiest months. Especially considering the annual trend of increased ridership, we’ll need more commuter bike space capacity in 2022 when electric trains enter service.
I have been a Caltrain commuter for the past decade, and I have done BART-Amtrak-Caltrain connections. Some of the time, I have biked at the origin and/or destination end of my commute and, other times, walking has sufficed. It is unequivocally clear that bike commuting will remain an essential part of San Francisco Bay Area life. I have seen the rise and fall of tech companies placed throughout the city and the Peninsula at ranges from 1-5 miles from train stations where biking is a “last mile” necessity.
Mark Sherwood
San Francisco
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