If I choose to add a comparison with SWR, that is my choice to do so. The length of time is not relevant when my reference is not about having a seat, it is about leaving people behind at St Ives and Carbis Bay platforms. Thanks.
This statement comes across as extremely arrogant and very patronising.
If we engage with the comparison, I will again point out that SWR maintain the space for bikes at all times, but when passenger loadings are such that bikes cannot be carried without leaving people behind, they temporarily ban bikes to allow passengers to use that space. There is no reason the St Ives line could not do likewise. The provision of space for bikes is still a net gain for passengers at all times - passenger who wish to travel with bikes can do so when there's room, and there is more space for additional standing passengers when crush loadings are required.
You must understand my perplexion at the suggestion of investing money into a cycle carriage, that you would then ban bikes from on very busy days (in Summer there are many) - and if you look at the Scotrail ones it doesn’t seem the safest to have standing passengers in the bike area anyway.
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Passenger with bicycles are as entitled to expect space as passengers with large pieces of luggage, push chairs, scooters (not electric) etc.. If the need is for as many people to board as possible, then the trains should be fitted out like the class 700/707/717, with maximum width aisles, luggage areas, and tip-up seats that have safe cycle stowage. Standing up in such an aisle is no more unsafe than any other open plan car. We have to acknowledge that lines that have a varying demand of passenger space will inevitably require compromises in the type of seating. There is no other way* that a service comprising a 100m long train every 30 mins., can reliably cope with the peak crowds that arrive at St Erth and St Ives on a surprise sunny day when the south coast is overcast.