{"id":9,"date":"2008-01-06T23:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-07T07:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/2008\/01\/06\/cardboard-protest\/"},"modified":"2008-01-06T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T07:55:21","slug":"cardboard-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/2008\/01\/06\/cardboard-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard protest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppimedia\/425288740\/' title='BikesOnTramsMarch2007-11-500px.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/bikesontramsmarch2007-11-500px.jpg' alt='BikesOnTramsMarch2007-11-500px.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n&copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ppimedia\/\">Sheffield Pedalpushers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar (or the same?) story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dexigner.com\/product\/news-g7016.html\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A cyclist at Victoria railway station in London was yesterday given permission by Southern Trains to take his full-size, non-folding bicycle on one of its peak time trains.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a recent decision to rigidly enforce a ban on the carriage of this type of bike on its peak-time services, an exception was made because the bike was made from cardboard.<\/p>\n<p>An employee of national cyclists&#8217; organisation, CTC asked for permission to board the peak-time service with the full-size model bike to draw attention to the fact that the ban is ill-conceived; not only do many peak-time services have enough space to accommodate bikes, but other bulky items &#8211; such as full-size cardboard models of bikes &#8211; are allowed to travel.<\/p>\n<p>CTC Senior Transport Campaigner, Adam Coffman, said: &#8220;Cyclists shouldn&#8217;t have to use cardboard bikes to get on peak-time trains; quite apart from anything else they don&#8217;t perform well in the wet.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge of accommodating cycles on over-crowded trains is best tackled by sensible management rather than rigid policing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CTC is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclists%27_Touring_Club\">Cyclists&#8217; Touring Club<\/a>, the United Kingdom&#8217;s largest cycling membership organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&copy; Sheffield Pedalpushers A similar (or the same?) story from here: A cyclist at Victoria railway station in London was yesterday given permission by Southern Trains to take his full-size, non-folding bicycle on one of its peak time trains. Despite a recent decision to rigidly enforce a ban on the carriage of this type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernthings.org\/binthebikeban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}