Promoting environmentally sustainable transport (EST) is a must to mitigate adverse environmental and health impact in the city, said the speakers at a national workshop and policy dialogue yesterday.

The EST includes non-motorised vehicles, bicycles, pedestrianisation schemes and vehicles with less emission of pollutants, they added.

MUMBAI: Why are bicycles, which don't pollute, take up little space, are cheap and have virtually no maintenance cost, not a popular mode of travel in Mumbai? According to activists and cycling enthusiasts, the reasons are a mindset that favours motorised vehicles and a lack of infrastructure to promote cycling in the city.

Bangalore: Just as India embraces a Rs 1 lakh car, the Murugappa Group has launched a bicycle worth a whopping Rs 2 lakh.
While the Nano epitomises the dreams and aspirations of millions who have never driven a car, the Rs 2-lakh bicycle hopes to ride with 7,000 people who are looking to achieve an adrenalin rush by just cycling.

Thane Municipal Corporation

Who will foot the bill Rs 275.70 crore: cost of 52 km cycle track Rs 96.50 crore: expected assistance from the Centre Rs 41.36 crore: Maharashtra government

An 82-km cycle track to connect residential areas of the Mumbai suburb, 52 km in the kitty Pravin Pandurang Mandavkar, 24, serves vada-pav in the Thane Municipal Corporation canteen. Everyday, he commutes from his house in Kharegaon, seven kilometres away, on his bicycle. The daily commute, he said, is cumbersome and unsafe given the heavy traffic on the seven-kilometre stretch

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FOR the first time in the Queen of Hills, Tamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation (TTDC) is likely to introduce bicycle riding at Ooty Boat House (Ooty Lake) to attract more tourists this summer.

NEW DELHI: A heritage cycling ride was organised in the heart of the Capital by Delhi Cycling Club on Sunday. The event was supported by Open Planning Project and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.

The aim of the ride was to promote bicycle as a green, healthy and most sustainable mode of transport and help people learn about the heritage and history of Delhi.
The journey

NAVI MUMBAI: Cycling seems to be the best way to look after yourself as well as the environment.

Around 150 students of Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering at Koparkhairane organised a Cyclothon on Sunday, when they cycled a 44.4-km stretch, stopping at various stations, malls and traffic islands to spread the message of global warming and fast depleting fuel sources.