Cyclists across the city are volunteering to distribute groceries and medicines to seniors during lockdown. Here’s how they got together and ramped up the initiative.
The Comprehensive Mobility Plan almost neglects cycling – it proposes just 174 km of cycling tracks while about 4000 km of tracks can be built. Bicycle sharing hubs also get little allocation in the plan
As part of a new initiative ‘CycleToWork Fridays’, cyclists in the city will ride to work together every Friday. A broader coalition to promote cycling will be launched in the city on November 6
Though more Bengalureans are taking to cycling now, cyclists are highly unsafe on the roads. This Sunday, over 3000 cyclists rode on the streets, calling for motorists to keep them safe
Not solving private vehicle congestion is a disincentive as long as a public transport alternative is provided priority lanes and moves faster than the private vehicles.
Bengaluru airport is ideal for it to be an Entrepôt. This will unclog the city and provide the opportunity to create jobs in the region and living facilities.
Government agencies claim that it is difficult to recognise ISI helmets. Not wearing safe helmets costs the government and society, and consequences are not worth the effort to dodge it.
With residential areas increasing and commercial areas decreasing in the master plan, there is no real plan to make Bengaluru sustainable. Insights from a citizen.
Many people have been hurt on this road by being forced to walk on the road and interfere with the traffic or falling because of bad quality of the surface.
Building elevated roads is a case of needing bigger pants because one continues to eat unhealthy food. How big can the pant be? What’s the implication of big bodies and bigger pants in the long run? asks Sathya Sankaran.