River Line Bike Access Update

[John Boyle]

This is an email I received from Rich Kerr at NJ Transit in his comments from the NJ Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting   1.On the new River Line, I stated at the meeting that there will be no peak period ("rush hour") exclusion of bikes aboard the vehicles. This matches the other NJ TRANSIT South Jersey rail line, the Atlantic City Line. Only the North Jersey rail lines have the peak period exclusion of bikes (due to crowding and space constraints), and we try to limit those exclusions to the peak travel direction. 2. With regard to the last bullet under my area of the minutes, bikes and their riders go through the same doors as everyone else on all NJ TRANSIT rail vehicles, using the doors with the international accessibility (wheelchair) symbol. The light rail cars have mostly low-level floors. On the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and the Newark City Subway in North Jersey, riders should keep their bicycles in the unused door area across from the active doors. On the new River Line, the car design provides hooks to hang the bikes vertically, above a flip-up seat. I have recently learned that there are six bike hooks per car -- three in each articulated half of these flexing vehicles.