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  • Bike rentals, a fashion in Paris

    16 July 2008 - 2:15pm — GVK
    Traffic
    In my schooldays in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, bicycles were the prime mode of transport for the middle-class. The affluent among my class-mates came to school in own bikes. My parents didn’t get me one till I joined college in New Delhi. By which time (this, in late 50s) bicycling went out of fashion.

    With aggressive marketing of Luna, scooty, and other two-wheelers bicycles became a poor man’s vehicle. We, who considered ourselves better-off on the social scale, preferred the rush, long wait and uncertainty of public transport to a bicycle for travelling to work.

  • One convincing reason for us to use public transport and bicycles

    28 March 2008 - 8:58pm — shas3n
    Public Transport
    They say a picture says a thousand words. Here is a poster that show the space occupied by same number of people using Cars, bus and cycles.
    Can it get any more convincing than this?
    Courtesy: Core77 blog.

  • Cycling on verge of extinction in India

    27 December 2007 - 12:11am — asj
    The West is promoting cycling increasingly but in India many small cities like Pune and Banglore are making it extinct.
    The picture below says it all.

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