Bikes welcome on board! 🚆🚲
Combining cycling and train travel is now much easier in the EU.
As of today, all new and upgraded trains will have dedicated spaces for all bikes – not just foldables.
Sustainable, flexible travel is the future.
Where will your next journey take you? 👇🚴♀️
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in reply to Feodora 🐈⬛(🐈)🐾🐾😺(😺) • • •„all new and upgraded trains“
This affects only upcoming call for bids. But it's for new vehicles of the DB, too.
PalmAndNeedle
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in reply to Feodora 🐈⬛(🐈)🐾🐾😺(😺) • • •@Feodora 🐈⬛(🐈)🐾🐾😺(😺) You're setting your stakes too high. Try taking your bike in any train in Romania, period.
In fact, it's a horror to take the train even without a bike most times.
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solstice
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Cătă
in reply to solstice • • •@solstice yeah. CFR charges half the price of a ticket, unless it's a folded bike. In this case, it's considered as luggage, and you can carry it for free.
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J—dV
in reply to European Commission • • •Jeanguy
in reply to European Commission • • •huiiii!!!
in reply to European Commission • • •This is an important step even if it affects only new and upgraded trains!
Unfortunately, the minimum number of bike spots per train that has to be offered is extremely low (was it 4 or 6?) and the reservation, especially when using several trains, is often very complicated.
The best case would be to force train companies to handle bikes like normal luggage and to reintroduce luggage-only wagons to make mandatory reservations redundant.
#bike #fahrrad #fahrradbubble #FahrradImZug
ReneDamkot
Unknown parent • • •@Radlerin in the Netherlands:
“Tandems, recumbent bicycles and tricycles are now also no longer allowed on the train, unless they are an aid due to a physical disability.”
rover.nl/actueel/75-fiets-en-o…
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Nieuwe voorwaarden fiets mee in de trein
RoverThijs Lucas
in reply to European Commission • • •@Daniel_Pagenstecher
"All bikes" as in cargo bikes and tandems too?
Thijs Lucas
Unknown parent • • •I would understand that as an request for clarification since all bikes is way more then most politicians understand when they hear the word bicycle.
Alda Vigdís
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in reply to Tofm2 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 • • •les lignes TER qu'on laisse dépérir au profit du TGV avec des modalités d'accès différentes selon les régions et les saisons ? Oui je vois très bien : reporterre.net/Voyager-a-velo-…
Et c'est clairement insuffisant quand on compare à d'autres pays qui n'ont pas attendu la contrainte réglementaire pour faire le minimum syndical.
Eldeberen
in reply to ralocycleuse • • •Et quand bien même y'a du TGV, c'est juste du mega lol les modalités pour mettre un vélo dedans.
Nan clairement en France on peut faire *beaucoup* mieux sur le sujet.
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in reply to European Commission • • •Cătă doesn't like this.
ekstromenator
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in reply to European Commission • • •taking the train is still a lot more expensive for families than driving.
"Protecting the environment" should not be be a privilege for the well off and rich.
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Christoph Brodesser
in reply to European Commission • • •Fahrräder an Bord willkommen! 🚆🚲
Die Kombination von Rad- und Zugreisen ist in der EU jetzt viel einfacher.
Ab heute werden alle neuen und verbesserten Züge spezielle Plätze für alle Fahrräder haben - nicht nur für Falträder.
Nachhaltiges, flexibles Reisen ist die Zukunft.
Wohin wird deine nächste Reise gehen? 👇🚴♀️
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Leeloo
in reply to Alda Vigdís • • •@alda @Radlerin More like arguing about the semantics of the word "all". If they had just said bikes, the argument likely wouldn't exist.
Like the town I grew up, there is a pedestrian street, which allows driving (at low speed) outside of the tourist season. They did finally change the signs to "driving allowed", but for years they said "all driving allowed". Which the pedants and authists would point out "all driving" includes reckless driving and drunk driving.
Quincy
in reply to European Commission • • •Brendan Minish
in reply to European Commission • • •you better tell Irish rail about this , currently there's a limit of 2 bikes per carriage, if your route is lucky enough to have rolling stock that takes bikes at all.
It's backwards we have gone in the last 30 years and it's shite!!!
Peter 🔻
in reply to European Commission • • •François @Jura
in reply to European Commission • • •1. Unified rail gauges and voltage systems (but not the German one)
2. Standardized signalization (Eulynx, ERTMS is slowly rolled out)
3. Better East-West connections (e.g. still nothing between Prague and Nurnber)
4. More taxes on flights
Peter Bindels
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Pavel Moravec
in reply to European Commission • • •From various practical experiences, it is almost impossible to have *granted* place for my bike, as the places are often full (of other bikes or passengers without a seat).
Better than nothing, but still not a reliable service from a passenger point of view.
WolfG
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in reply to European Commission • • •it’s an intermediate solution to a problem that needs to be fixed completely.
Take a look at the Netherlands.
Yes you can take a bicycle with you on the train, but it’s thousand times more convenient to place your own bicycle at the train station where you start your journey and then hire a bicycle fast and easy at the train station where you arrive.
That is the best solution and that’s The Solution the EU commission should aim for.
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