Bikes on the DLR

So I went to uni today, and I had to get to Tower Hill rather quickly, so I decided to get on the DLR, expecting it to allow for bikes. But to my amazement, it does not.

What shit is this? Seeing as the DLR is the newest expansion to London's public transport system, I expected it to allow for bikes.

There is so much space on those trains, I find it a bit silly. I shall take this up with the Johnson straight away.

His private mobile is 07769 169 631

best of luck

certain underground line does not allowed bicycle, DLR fall into this.

why bother taking up with Johnson about it? you're not going to take the DLR with your bike everyday aren't you?

Well no, but I still think it is rather silly. Especially considering how he is so pro-bike.

Thanks for his mobile number, but I have better means of communicating with him.

it doesn't sound so silly when you think about it; a bicycle, a human powered transport that take you from a to b.

they do allowed folding bike, and if the need arise to take your bike into the DLR, simply take the wheel off and put the bike in a black bag.

Thanks for his mobile number, but I have better means of communicating with him.

it doesn't sound so silly when you think about it; a bicycle, a human powered transport that take you from a to b.

they do allowed folding bike, and if the need arise to take your bike into the DLR, simply take the wheel off and put the bike in a black bag.

I am afraid I do not care a big black bag with me most of the time.

But still!

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It would probably be quicker to cycle to Tower Hill than muck about getting on and off the DLR. Thats what Johnson would say.

This is a no smoking forum ;o)))

It would probably be quicker to cycle to Tower Hill than muck about getting on and off the DLR. Thats what Johnson would say.

Well in the end I got there rather quickly and was only 10 minutes late for my very very important meeting.

a pub lunch.

Well in the end I got there rather quickly and was only 10 minutes late for my very very important meeting.

a pub lunch.

So why are you complaining then?

So why are you complaining then?

I just find it a bit weird that one can take a bike on the tube but not on the DLR.

That is all.

Not at all hours and they don't allow bikes on the deep underground ones.

Next you will be complaining about bikes not being allowed on Motorways.

Ah good idea! Will make a thread about that next week.

I wonder why it has to in an enclosed bag?

"Docklands Light Railway

You can only take a folded bicycle, and it must be totally enclosed in a cover."

Maybe it is to stop us getting the "suits & wage slaves" covered in oil! ;o)

Bikes on Public Transport

Bikes aren't allowed on deep-line trains (Piccadilly, Northern, Bakerloo, Central, Victoria, Jubilee) when they are anywhere underground. That's considered a safety issue. You can take bikes on all the sub-surface lines (Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City, Circle, District and East London, as was) outside of rush hour though.

The DLR was a separate entity when it was set up. It was a separate company that was part of LUL (don't know the complete mechanics of it) but they had their own safety case etc. Bikes on the DLR isn't a safety thing, it is apparently down to their insurance.

So... Might be a good issue to push Boris and or TfL on. Cos that insurance has to get renewed at some point. Just means they have to write a new safety case, with risk assessment for bikes, etc I guess.

Ignore the folding bikes in a bag thing - they never enforce that.

Dredging up an old thread...

Does anyone know if there's any plan to allow full-size bikes on the DLR, or if there is anyone lobbying for it to be allowed? I got home to find a flyer informing me of plans to build Cycle Hire docking stations at a number of DLR stations, and telling me of the 'DLR's successful Cycle Strategy - a project aimed at encouraging people to cycle to and from DLR stations'. But the flyer also tells me that 'For safety reasons, bicycles can only be taken on the DLR if folded and carried', which seems at odds with the DLR's other good work in getting people on their bikes. I don't really get the safety argument; the DLR is almost entirely overground and outside peak times the trains have plenty of space. Surely the regulations should be consistent with the Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City, Circle, District and Overground (i.e. bikes allowed off peak)? Is it simply because the DLR is a separate entity from the rest of the network?

A someone has already mentioned upthread, cycling is faster than a DLR anyway.

But since they have closed the Greenwich foot tunnel, the only crossings are Tower Bridge or Woolwich. Take you wheels off, stick frame + wheels in large bin liner. Then it's luggage. Used to do this a few years back.

DLR have always been shit regarding bikes.

I'd love to be able to take my bike on the DLR as if I want to take my bike with me to visit family in essex I'd have to cycle from greenwich to limehouse and the reverse on the way back.

the thing I imagine they may be worried about is access to the stations, almost all of the station entrances are elevated and only have elevator/stairs for access I can imagine the insurance providers would shit if they were actively encouraging people to carry bikes up and down what are usually massively steep stairs.

A someone has already mentioned upthread, cycling is faster than a DLR anyway.

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.

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).

Get a tube because you've had a puncture? FFS

Yeah, the whole 'no bikes on DLR' thing felches big time.

I tried to ride from Hackney to Woolwich Arsenal a few months ago to visit my pregnant friend, but ended up getting lost in canary wharf! so i thought i'd jump on the dlr with the bike. before i bought my ticket, i checked to see if i could bring it on. couldn't see any info around the ticket machine. it wasn't until i was in the carriage that there was an actual sign saying no bikes on dlr. i stayed on anyway, the ticket man was nice to me and let me stay on. the next morning i borrowed a bin liner and took my bike apart to get to work from my friend's, which was fookin hassle.

don't like dlr, don't want it.