Lackawanna Coalition

advocating for rail passengers since 1979

Tag: bicycles

  • From Florida on Valentine’s Day

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    Webweaver

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    Member Gary Kazin, a “snowbird” who winters in Florida and is an avid cyclist, sent in this report from his travels this past Valentine’s Day: We’re in Kissimmee, Florida, an appropriate destination for Valentine’s Day weekend, for the Florida Folk Dance Council’s Winter Camp, which started Friday evening and ends at noon Monday.  Eat (too…

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  • NJT Changes Weekend Bike Rules Again

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey Transit has changed the rules for bicycles on weekend trains again.  The ban on bikes applies only between Secaucus and Penn Station, New York, so riders can take a bike on the train between points within New Jersey.  Riders cannot take bicycles to Penn Station on trains that leave Dover after 7:05 a.m. and before 11:05…

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  • NJT Relaxes Some Weekend Bicycle Restrictions, but It’s Little Help on Our Lines

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    Donald Winship

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    New Jersey Transit announced on Monday, August 6th, that it would relax some of the weekend restrictions against the use of bicycles on trains, beginning on Saturday, August 11th.  The restrictions that went into effect in July prohibited bicycles on all inbound trains that would arrive at their terminals in Newark, Hoboken, or New York…

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  • NJT Announces New Bicycle Policy

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    Donald Winship

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    Cyclists Win Some and Lose Some; Public Not Consulted New Jersey Transit implemented new policies regarding bringing bicycles onto trains on July 1st.  The victory for bike riders was that bikes can now be brought onto trains at all stations, not only stations with high-level platforms. The loss for bike riders is that cyclists from…

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  • New Bike Policy: NJT Gives Back, Takes Away

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    John Bobsin

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    Several months ago, NJ Transit modified its bicycle-on-board-trains policy to prohibit use of bicycles at stations that do not have high-level platforms; this ended bike use at many popular stations that lack high-level platforms, including the Hoboken Terminal.  An outcry from bicyclists ensued; now NJT has updated their policy).  However, the new policy, available as…

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  • NJT Adjusts Bikes-on-Trains Policy

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    Donald Winship

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    This article is from Railway Age, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Lackawanna Coalition Calling it a “newly relaxed Bike Aboard Policy,” New Jersey Transit Monday said it will allow bicycles to board at all of its train stations effective July 1. But while the policy includes all stations, access is still…

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  • Bicycle Policy Under Review

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    John Bobsin

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    More than two years ago, NJ Transit changed its policy on the use of trains by bicyclists, publishing (in timetables) rules that restricted boarding or leaving trains with bicycles to stations with high-level platforms: it’s more difficult and perhaps less safe to do this at stations with low-level platforms, which requires the cyclist to carry…

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