Yes, the ability to access HSR to get to Chicago, Milwaukee, Minny, heck anywhere is a big plus about the expanded rail potentials for tourism..as it is here for folks in that market coming HERE..aka THE best place to Road Ride in the midwest.... The cost to take apart and ship with air travel, or bus travel is extremely expensive. I did meet one great Bike Builder who has created a line of bikes that are easily collapsable due to some cool frame and cable fitting strategies and fit into normal luggage, circumventing the extra charges that make travelling by bike prohibitive...check them out at http://www.andersoncustombicycles.com/ Wish I had time to bike now..nice out! but work calls..darn Have a great weekend, Troy
Troy Thiel First Weber's Capitol Office Over $75 Million Sold! 222 West Washington Avenue, Suite 20 Madison, WI 53703 www.TroyThiel.com Phone: 347-9670 Fax: 663-8040 email: [email protected] --- On Fri, 11/12/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] Bike And Ride To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 12:19 PM > On a totally non-political topic... I think I have heard that the trains > may have 'roll on' options for bicycles. Roll bike on in Madison, train > to Milwaukee, 'roll off' bike and bike around lakefront, visit art > museum, festival grounds, then roll back on and train home. Keep in mind that getting passenger rail service wouldn't just be a way to travel to/from Milwaukee. It also means that you could do the same kind of trip to Chicago (something that seems to get overlooked in the debate on the topic). You'd get there faster than VanGalder bus and have more time for activity at your destination--and wouldn't have to deal with what I've read to be VanGalder's somewhat bike-unfriendly policies. (Don't misinterpret this as a total slam on VanGalder. I've taken VanGalder both to ORD and to downtown Chicago, and find it to be a much better service than the agonisingly slow and increasingly expensive Badger Bus to MKE. Still, its a slower trip to Chicago than a train would be and it's easy to get impatient and just want to be out of a cramped bus seat by that last hour of the trip.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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