Roody

If I had any money, I would finance a prize for people who innovate better bike storage on public transit. Like you say, trains could hold a lot of bikes without taking space away from other uses. The racks on buses are also imperfect--too slow and cumbersome, and they don't hold enough bikes, and they don't hold different sizes/shapes such as recumbents, tandems, fat bikes, or even kid's bikes.

Ekdog

Agreed. Where there's a will there's a way. There never seems to be room for bikes, but our railway company has managed to put special rooms on some of their trains for golf clubs and even, in the past...