Bikes on the DLR

Well, yes, it is, but that's not quite the point. There have been times when I've wanted to take a bike on the DLR because I've wanted to begin a ride further along, or because I've wanted to get under the Thames when the foot tunnel's been closed, or I've had a puncture, or I've been delivering a bike to someone else, or I've been drunk, or simply because I couldn't be bothered riding. I've taken bikes on the surface tube lines in several similar situations before - the other day I got a puncture at Edgware Road so trained it back to Whitechapel, for example - so it seems odd that I can't do the same on the DLR.

The difference is that the DLR is and always has been a private enterprise - it's not part of TfL proper. I used to run into this all the time when I worked for a firm that did transport data for TfL (amongst others).