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Most Commuter Buses Have Bike Racks – Cycling West

Most Commuter Buses Have Bike Racks – Cycling West




By Charles Pekow — If you ride a bus, it likely has an exterior bike rack—but probably doesn’t detect you as you approach. The 2025 Public Transportation Fact Book from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) reports that 76 percent of commuter buses are  equipped with bike racks, unchanged from 2014. However, only nine percent of buses feature bike or pedestrian detection systems.

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Charles Pekow

Charles Pekow is an award-winning Washington correspondent who has written about bicycling for years in publications such as the Washington Post, Bicycle Times, Dirt Rag, SPOKES, etc. as well as Cycling West/Cycling Utah. He also writes frequently on environmental issues and beer, among other topics. Weather permitting, you’ll find him most weekends and some summer evenings astride a bicycle in a park. He is also a charter member of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.


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