angusde
Well-Known Member
A slightly surreal encounter the other day on the train to work.
In Scotland, the Scottish Exec and the Scotrail franchise encourage cyclists to use the train.
Anyway, on my regular commute the other morning there was another cyclist and myself waiting for the train, when we boarded the class 170 unit, I politely asked the woman on the fold down seat at the bike rack (below the bike priority sign) if we could get in to the bike rack, when she said, "No, I'm not getting out of my seat for cycles"... at which point the 2 of us looked at each other and shrugged and waited in the vestibule area.
The guard/conductor then arrived and asked the woman to move, again she refused, and he said, "if you don't let them in I'll have to ask them to get of at the next stop, do you really want me to have to do that?" At which point she stood with much titting and sighing to let us in. Having secured my bike I sat in the next compartment where I counted TWENTY empty seats!..... When I returned at South Gyle for my bike, she was still standing and still titting and sighing, lol!
All very strange!
Of course many of you are thinking, "eh, bikes on trains?!?", or "eh? empty seats in the rush hour!?!"....
Angus
In Scotland, the Scottish Exec and the Scotrail franchise encourage cyclists to use the train.
Anyway, on my regular commute the other morning there was another cyclist and myself waiting for the train, when we boarded the class 170 unit, I politely asked the woman on the fold down seat at the bike rack (below the bike priority sign) if we could get in to the bike rack, when she said, "No, I'm not getting out of my seat for cycles"... at which point the 2 of us looked at each other and shrugged and waited in the vestibule area.
The guard/conductor then arrived and asked the woman to move, again she refused, and he said, "if you don't let them in I'll have to ask them to get of at the next stop, do you really want me to have to do that?" At which point she stood with much titting and sighing to let us in. Having secured my bike I sat in the next compartment where I counted TWENTY empty seats!..... When I returned at South Gyle for my bike, she was still standing and still titting and sighing, lol!
All very strange!
Of course many of you are thinking, "eh, bikes on trains?!?", or "eh? empty seats in the rush hour!?!"....
Angus