Bring your bike on the DLR

[Deerfold]

Would you apply the same rules to large luggage?

As National Rail does?

Excess luggage and certain more bulky items (such as skis) may be carried, subject to available space, at an extra charge.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/luggage_animals.aspx

 

[cyclebytrain]

I can see three or four situations where this would be really useful:

a) If the foot tunnels under the Thames are shut at the same time again.

b) For getting bikes between the two Stratford stations rather than wheeling around the shopping centre.

c) For getting out of Canary wharf. The first time I biked through there, it seemed like every diversion around building work/one way roads with no footpath beside then took you back to the station (probably wouldn't happen today with GPS of course).

d) When you break a chain, or blow your last spare tube and need to get somewhere, it'd be a very nice get out of jail free card.

Apart from those situations though I can't see it being terribly useful because the stations are pretty close together and needing to go up or down to get to them that unless your destination was literally right next to the station, you'd be better off biking directly to where you wanted to go.

 

[yorkie]

As National Rail does?

But have you ever seen them applied? I've never seen anyone refused/charged, no matter how ridiculously large their luggage is, or how much luggage they bring... unless it has been a bike. (anyone know of a suitable, easily portable, bag to disguise a bike? )

 

[Stats]

Rather oddly for a trial period I can't find a (possible) end date.

It is a 6 month trial.

 

[jopsuk]

Presumably the ban will be back in place during the 3rd/4th August- and possibly even the weekend before hand- with the large cycling events based in East London (RideLondon on the 4th, the Triathlon before it) bringing too many bikes to the DLR area to cope? for RideLondon 100, the DLR is unlikely to be much use to get there anyway (those starting last need to be at the Olympic park by 7am) but it would potentially be useful going back to cars.

 

[Mojo]

According to the TfL Facebook page "Cyclists with non-folding bikes are now welcome aboard the Docklands Light Railway during off-peak hours following a six-month trial. Five thousand cyclists used the network during that period to test the system, including members of the London Cycling Campaign.
Access for all cyclists - those with folding bikes have always been able to take them on to the railway - is part of the Mayor's Vision for Cycling in London, the £913m plan to transform the Capital into a city where cycling is a key part of everyday life."

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...50225865.59681.212038972186253&type=1&theater

 

[cyclebytrain]

Presumably still except for Bank?

 

[jopsuk]

Just saw this thread again- I used the DLR after the RideLondon 100 (our car was parked at West India Quay), it was very, very welcome not having to navigate out through east London- when I'd come past in the morning I'd been speeding through the Limehouse Link, which was an odd experience on a bike!

Very much a common sense approach being taken, like mainline rail.

 

[burneside]

It hasn't taken long for some users to start abusing the system. I witnessed a youth cycling along the platform at Island Gardens last weekend, and then this morning somebody had their bike on the train at 8.30 and then added insult to injury by using the escalator to exit Cutty Sark station. As both of these incidents happened at manned stations what hope is there of policing the cycle regulations across the network of mostly-unstaffed stations. There's an accident waiting to happen here.