HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-80-0381RESOLUTION NO 8 0- 3 8 1
A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE POLICY OF PERMITTING
BICYCLES ON METRORAIL RAPID TRANSIT VEHICLES
DURING NON -RUSH HOUR PERIOD AND SUBJECT TO
CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS, AND RECOMMENDING ADOPTION
OF SAID POLICY BY THE DADE COUNTY PUNPID TRANSIT
STAGE I POLICY COUNCIL.
WHEREAS, Dade County is building a Stage I heavy rail rapid
transit system that links the City of Miami and the northwest and
southern reaches of Dade County; and
WHEREAS, Miami is ideally suited to the use of the bicycle
as form of personal transportation; and
WHEREAS, significant numbers of people within two miles of
the twenty Stage I transit stations will find the bicycle a
convenient, efficient, and inexpensive mode of access to and from
the stations for both functional and recreational trips; and
WHEREAS, the Miami Metrorail system will have direct simplified
circulation within compact stations and wide vehicles, both easily
capable of accepting bicycles; and
WHEREAS, the San Francisco Bay Area has administered success-
fully a policy of permitting bicycles on their transit vehicles
for four years, thereby amply demonstrating the feasibility of the
concept, given reasonable controls;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI:
Section 1. The policy of permitting bicycles on Metrorail
rapid transit vehicles during non -rush hours and subject to reason-
able controls is hereby recommended as a desirable means of
expanding public transportation services for the people of Miami
and Dade County and the Rapid Transit State I Policy Council is
hereby urged to adopt this policy for the Metrorail System.
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CITY COMMISSION
MEETING OF
MAY 2 2 1980
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22 day of May ,1980.
MAURICE A. FERRE
M A Y O R
ATTEST:
RALPH G. ONGIE
CITY CLERK
PREPARED AND APPROVED BY:
ROBERT F. CLARK
ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
GEO E F. KNOX, J
TY ATTORNEY \
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TO Joseph R. Grassie April 28, 1980 -
City Manager
City Policy Advocating Bicycles
• on rapid transit
FROM Jim Reid, Director ,:EFFRENCLn
Planning Department
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The Planning Department has researched the issue of permitting
bicycles on rapid transit vehicles and has determined the
following facts:
BART (San Francisco) has permitted bicycles on its
transit vehicles for approximately four and one
half years, initially as a means of allowing cyclists
to gain regional access to parks, but most recently
usage has been in response to the gas crises and
transportation needs.
BART has issued 6541 permits to date and has only
needed to revoke four due to cyclists breaking
the rules. Occassi.onal confrontations do arise
but are considered a minor percentage of permit
holders.
. The program is considered by BART a success.
BART is the only system that has attempted this
policy (BOSTON PERMITS BIKES ON CERTAIN HOLIDAYS
ONLY)
BART restrictions include no bikes during morning
or evening rush hours; all bikes must be inspected
and display a permit sticker; no one under 14
without an accompanying adult; bikes only on last
car of each train and within rear 20 feet of that
vehicle; no use of escalators by cyclists carrying
bikes through stations; bikes must enter station
through handicapped gate.
The new Miami transit vehicle design recently unveiled, provides
the widest aisles and doors of any operating vehicle in this
country, and therefore would be well suited to accepting bicycles.
Because Miami is in many ways more suited to the use of the bicycle
as a means of transportation (weather, terrain), than San Francisco,
and our regional recreation and commuting needs (gas crises) are
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Joseph R. Grassie
City Manager
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April 30, 1880
as great, it is our conclusion that the bicycles on transit
policy would be of considerable merit here in Dade County. It
is therefore our recommendation that the attached resolution
endorsing such a policy be forwarded to the Commission for
action on the May 22nd agenda.