Looking at station plans for Fresno, it is clear the CHSRA needs a bike planner.
Standard industry practice is to locate the bike parking in a central location, preferably near the station agents. And if CHSRA uses fare gates (which seems increasingly likely) then the bike parking should be inside the paid area.
Where bike parking should NOT be located is in remote locations. Bike thieves love it when transit agencies do that. Especially when running an intercity service where bikes may have to be left for days at a time.
(Click images to expand. I have helpfully pointed out the bike parking area so it is easier to locate.)
Bike Parking in BART Paid Area
If they’re lockers, I don’t see it as such a big problem.
Why is CAHSR looking at faregates??!!?? (Can you cite this for me, please).
Unless that local California smart card provider is again whispering sweet (paranoia) nothings into the ears of the decision-makers…
Now if only there was a locally based company that knew something about this new-fangled bicycle parking at a train station:
Oh wait…
http://home.bikestation.com/
CHSRA is maintaining the fiction that it will be left to the operator to decide on fare gates. Practically speaking, yes, they are going with faregates. You will note how their station layouts funnel passengers through one or two points of access.
Some station renderings even show a Security checkpoint.
Because the profits of defense contractor Cubic depend on it, that’s why. Just ask the LA MTA! Or Bay Area MTC head Steve “inexplicably not yet inducted” Heminger.
Plus, the massive steel and concrete apparatus of airliside/landside, mezzanine levels, security walls, agent booths, redundant circulation areas, etc, represents billions of dollars (more likely in the tens of billions, especially when you factor in San José Intergalactic and Transbay Catastrophic) in extra project costs that will need to be “managed”. And who exactly might one imagine that might benefit?
There is also an (I would think) obvious personal safety issue with that placement.
I highly doubt there will be fare gates.
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