Ride a cycle, save environment

PUNE: With the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) starting work on its project on 'Nonmotorised transport feeder services to pilot bus rapid
transit (BRT) routes,' the civic body is all set to take this opportunity to renew the city's image as 'cycling city,' by planning a series of projects promoting non-motorised transport (NMT).

The biggest advantage is Pune has been chosen by the Union ministry of urban development , as a demonstration city for the World Bank-assisted sustainable urban transport programme (SUTP) for India, which include NMT feeder services project. "Although the World Bank is going to fund only the NMT feeder services project, we are preparing several other plans to bring back cycles on roads," Dinesh Girolla of PMC's NMT cell said.