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@roxy
Here's more info and proof of how important the demo is. I'll be there (so hopefully Mike will be too!). I'd like to take my bike on Eurostar. Simple.
Would I like to park my bike at King's Cross? maybe but currently it's worth an awful lot of dime bags to those lovely King's Cross residents. Perhaps if they had something to lock it to that wasn't made of foil, oh wait, that's the whole point....
From Trevor Parsons
(Note the comments re the bike hanger hooks in eurostar, a point I have made repeatedly in the past, [I must make the point again in the future when some people are actually in earshot, not when I am on my own and mumbling to myself])
A reminder of that the demo at St Pancras is this Wednesday morning, the
day Eurostar services start using it.
Full details and background are here:
http://www.camdencyclists.org.uk/camden/campaigns/eurostar/eurostar-demo-11-14-10
Chastened by the impending demo and bad press already generated, London
& Continental Railways and NCP are now rushing to install adequate bike
parking, initially for 100 bikes, which should be mostly in place by
Wednesday. (I'm pretty sure they'll be correctly spaced 'cos I drew up
the plans for them the other day!)
But as you can see on the Camden Cyclists page above, cycle parking
isn't the only problem. There's also a plush new one-way system around
the station, with no facility for contraflow cycling, and you are still
not allowed to take an unfolded bike with you on the Eurostar, despite
there having been a space and hooks dedicated for the purpose on the
trains since they were built.
We need to make a tangible statement that forgetting about cycling at a
transport hub is not acceptable, so please do make effort to get down to
St Pancras on Wednesday morning if you can.
8am for 8.30, German Gym, Pancras Road (opposite station entrance).
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=530120&Y=183162&A=Y&Z=1
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Trevor