CycleDay Coverage / Publicity

Regarding the irresponsible & selfish comment from the cubbon park walkers association in the indian express that cyclists are not important & that they need to go to other parks, let me remind them cubbon park is not their private property. They travel in cars & walk for 2kms in the park & claim it as their backyard.

This is the same group that felt pegions cause disease & that dogs should be banned in the park. If they really werent showing off they would walk on real streets to carry out daily activities & ask BBMP to lay proper sidewalks to protect real walkers. Not these fancy strollers forming association. 

This is the same walkers which claimed warm ups by women runners in the park is indecent & they should go home to warm up. I think these so called walkers are just a bunch of lazy old people wanting the park all to themselves. They dont have any visions of a sustainability for the rest of us. 

They are even threatning the deputy director of the park, for allowing people other than their group to do any activities. I think there may be some goings on betweeen the park authorities and them or just goondagardi by the so called lawer who heads this group. If it is so then he is showing what lawers are truly made of. 

The title by Indian Express is unnecessarily sensational. If they really wanted to stir the pot the report should have come back to us for a clarification ont the comment.

Click on the link below to see how Janette Sadik-Khan, Transportation commissioner, New York City, has taken cycling to a new high
http://www.ted.com/talks/janette_sadik_khan_new_york_s_streets_not_so_mean_any_more.html

Murali Sir,

Thank you for sharing the video on Changing scenraio of New York City streets. It's all about willingness of bureacrats to try different things, not sit there and count days for plum postings.

My favorite line from that video is -

Her mantra: Do bold experiments that are cheap to try out.

This is what Praja-RAAG has been campaigning for last 3 years. Go for the low hanging fruits.

Environmentalist Sunita Narain suffered critical injuries on Sunday after a speeding car hit her from behind while she was riding a bicycle in the national capital, police said.

52-year-old Narain, the director of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and resident of South Delhi's Green Park area, was heading towards Lodhi Garden area on a bicycle when an unidentified car hit her from behind around 6.00 am.

The car driver fled from the accident site. Ms Narain, was rushed to AIIMS where doctors said that her both arms have been fractured and she suffered grievous injuries in her chest.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/environmentalist-sunita-narain-severely-injured-after-being-hit-by-a-speeding-car-in-delhi-434876?pfrom=home-lateststories

Bangalore citizens  who direv their perosnnal vechiles should  give respect to cyclists and make safe city for the cyclists in Garden / IT city.

@Ravi,

Full credit for Kannada version of the flier goes to Kishore. Though he is based in H'bad, he has been helping us with translating many of the documents lately.

Kishore, thank you so much and we will look forward to your continued support.

I am only a messenger :)

-Syed