Bicycles on LO

NLL eastbound - West Hampstead - morning peak 8:40AM - train absolutely packed. Not one, not two, but three cyclists standing together on the platform. Determined to push their way on in a very discourteous an aggressive manner. I'm sure LO must have received a few complaints about that.
Some people have absolutely no common sense or manners.
If I was Mayor of London, I would ban all unfolded bicycles at all times on all local/suburban trains where 80% of the route is within Greater London and instead provide secure accommodation for bicycles at all stations - £2 flat rate per bicycle

To quote LO's own rules on cycles.

I thought the idea of a bicycle was to avoid using other means of transport. And the comments about manners are spot on. Not so long back I was compelled to administer a severe reprimand to one lout with an unfolded bike who tried to barge on to a NLL right into a pregenant woman standing near the doors. Needless to say, I was wasting my time as he just told me to **** off.

There is a little reason why we dont have Guards vans anymore, it is to do with three little letters or three words. Those being D O O or Driver Only Operation. Every train built since the 1980s has dispensed with the brake van, mostly because of those three little words but also because trains do not carry mail, parcels and newspapers anymore. A closure by stealth rather then any design fault. That is why restrictions on bicycles have been put in place by most Railway companies, and why you have to force your way on to a train.
However i sometimes think people are lazy when they have a bike a prime example was yesterday i was working train to Barking arrived at Leyton Midland Road with a full and standing train three able young men had bikes, no where to put them, they had grumbled that this was the third train they had missed (with a 15 minute headway that is 45 minutes which has they couldn't get onto mine puts that up to 60 minutes). Now its another 15 minutes to get to Barking with a 7 minute turn round with another 15 minutes journey back to Leyton Midland Road and can you believe that these three were still waiting to get on a train so they have waited now nearly 2 hours for a cycle journey that would take (and that is if they are actually going to Barking) by road at 45 minutes TOPS!

Unless you live within an hour's cycle (I found 30 minutes bad enough) of your workplace, then this is at best a naive comment. Cars provide a door-to-door service, straight from your home to your job, but a lot of railway stations (outside London...yes we do exist) are sited an impractical distance from anything useful. You can cycle to the station, but if you can't get your bike on the train, what do you do about the other end of your commute? You could buy two bikes, and have one "outstationed", but it would be open to vandalism, theft, weathering, and even general wear and tear would make it utterly impractical (imagine turning up to find a flat tyre). Boris bikes are a great idea, but they are almost entirely redundant in a city as well-served by public transport as London. For instance, I'd love to see a similar scheme based at Bristol Temple Meads, and many other towns and cities would benefit.

The usage levels of the Boris Bikes would suggest that they are far from redundant - demand far outstrips supply in many areas, as I discover four times a day when I hunt desperately for a bike anywhere near Waterloo and, having found one then have the opposite problem trying to dock it in the City. The same problem in reverse in the evening of course - Boris Bikers arrive at Waterloo every few seconds.

No, but it was awkwardly laid out by TfL, and the copy and paste caused the relevant section to be lost amongst the Euston section. The relevant part is:



The first part was referring to the sections where you can take a bike at any time.

Here is the fully formatted version:

www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/11701.aspx#section-4