{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-14T00:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/2008\/01\/14\/cyclists-call-for-vline-ban-to-be-lifted\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T00:18:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T13:18:30","slug":"cyclists-call-for-vline-ban-to-be-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/2008\/01\/14\/cyclists-call-for-vline-ban-to-be-lifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists call for V\/Line ban to be lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.binthebikeban.org\/bikes_on_trains2.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Geelong Advertiser: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geelongadvertiser.com.au\/article\/2008\/01\/13\/10468_news.html\">Cyclists call for V\/Line ban to be lifted<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nBike riders want City Hall to fight a V\/Line bicycle ban. Convener of Geelong Greens Bruce Lindsay said he used to ride to Geelong station when he commuted to Melbourne and would cycle to his workplace from Southern Cross Station. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Far fewer greenhouse emissions. No stress of driving. No parking hassles,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said a move to rid peak trains of bicycles would further congest overflowing station car parks and smacked of decision making made on the run to fix a strained public transport system. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than fundamentally fixing the system, there is instead a series of ad hoc actions and decisions (or non-actions or indecisions),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Convener of Barwon Bicycle Users Group Russell Lindsay has written to councillor Barbara Abley asking her to protest the crackdown on cyclists to Geelong MP Ian Trezise and Minister for Public Transport Lynne Kosky. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr Lindsay said the ban on bikes would force cyclists to drive to rail stations rather than ride<\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But Cr Abley said any response needed to be a whole of council approach and that the group should write to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trezise said yesterday he would be happy to speak to bicycle users and raise their concerns with Ms Kosky.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 1, V\/Line passengers have been forbidden from travelling with bikes on weekday trains that arrive in Melbourne before 9am or leave Melbourne between 4pm and 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>V\/Line internal communications manager Rebecca Cusack said passengers had until February 1 to become aware of the new rules, after which passengers with bikes would be asked to get off at the next station but would not be fined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geelong Advertiser: Cyclists call for V\/Line ban to be lifted Bike riders want City Hall to fight a V\/Line bicycle ban. Convener of Geelong Greens Bruce Lindsay said he used to ride to Geelong station when he commuted to Melbourne and would cycle to his workplace from Southern Cross Station. &#8220;Far fewer greenhouse emissions. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}