[publictransport] [The Age] I was misinformed on bike review: Kosky

[Bethany Keats]

I have to disagree. Their survey was blatantly biased to get a result of "we
need bike cages" and I think it's too much of a coincidence that BV makes
money out of said bike cages for it to be a simple stuff-up.




On Jan 24, 2008 10:08 AM, Anthony Morton <amorton at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> >> Oh, but they did!  They met in secret with someone at BV who said
> >> they'd be OK with banning bikes in return for the government
> >> building a bike cage at Eltham.  :-)
> >
> > I think you were joking when you first wrote this, but I am
> > seriously starting to wonder if BV sold out its members by telling
> > the DOI this ban would be acceptable in exchange for... ???
> > Or if they sold out for nothing at all, that's almost worse. Not
> > only are they sell-outs, but they're *cheap* sell-outs. :)
>
> Egad, I knew I shouldn't be planting dangerous thoughts in people's
> heads with that half-joke... :-)
>
> I suspect though with BV it's not so much conspiracy as simple stuff-
> up.  Doubtless the people concerned genuinely thought that no-one has
> a real need to take a bike on a train in peak hour.  They really
> should have asked.
>
> Tony
>
>
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