{"id":76,"date":"2008-04-30T07:16:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/caltrain-bike-tips\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:28:13","slug":"caltrain-bike-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/30\/caltrain-bike-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltrain bike tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the brilliant minds on the SVBC listserv and especially Margaret Okuzumi, ED of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayrailalliance.org\/about_us\">the Bay Rail Alliance<\/a> and a very nice and friendly person:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayrailalliance.org\/caltrain_bike_tips\">Caltrain Bike Tips<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caltrain will tell you the bike rules, but those of us who use it every day will tell you how to do better than the rules and be a courteous bike commuter when using the train as part of your commute.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we missed: don&#8217;t obstruct pedestrians getting on or off the train. Caltrain says pedestrians have the right to board and exit first. Try not to get in the way of a pedestrian or contact one with your bike &#8212; it could end in reprimand, anger, or injury. Sometimes simultaneous bike\/ped boarding and deboarding is permitted by the conductors. If the stairs are divided unevenly, it&#8217;s bikes through the wide side unless you&#8217;re experienced and have a skinny bike, but if the wide side is on the south (pedestrian) side of the car, the pedestrians get to go first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the brilliant minds on the SVBC listserv and especially Margaret Okuzumi, ED of the Bay Rail Alliance and a very nice and friendly person: Caltrain Bike Tips Caltrain will tell you the bike rules, but those of us who use it every day will tell you how to do better than the rules and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,13,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}