SKYWAYS.. CYCLING WAYS.. HOW ABOUT THIS IDEA !!!

CONTEXT : BIG CITIES IN INDIA

When we ride two wheelers during peak hours ( between0830 hrs -1030 hrs and 1730 hrs to 2000 hrs), the experience could be anything but pleasant. ..

Adding to the agony.. the fuel price is skyrocketing ...

Few solutions are already in place and few more are in pipeline.. such as .. metro .. flyover..underpass. These are the new jargon one uses to tell your ways in any big cities..

All the above solutions are aimed at de-congesting traffic and not as fuel savings measures..

I have few thoughts that I would like to share with readers of this blog

{MY BLISSFUL THINKING IS... One day I can feel .. oh!! my thoughts are now reality .. }

Well,

We must have infrastructure for those who use bicycles..

please note the word MUST ..

it is not time for lamenting about lack of such infra.. but it is high time to act and build skyways for cyclists .. to make a beginning .. I have few suggestions..

• A straight stretches (long roads) with dense traffic should be chosen for construction of such skyways.. ,
• There should be a lift /elevator at key points where people can take their bicycle up to the skyways..
• There must also be bicycle stands at such key points

Having shared this crude idea.. May I also add few important aspects ..

The surface of such skyways must be suitably designed to have proper traction with bicycle tyres just to ensure bicycle riding more pleasurable.

NO idea can be attractive until and unless the advantages were spellt out..

Let me try to enlist.. few advantages,,

• Cost of construction for bicycle skyways should be much less than the cost for skyways/fly over meant for heavy vehicles.
• Once built .. these skyways will become almost zero pollution zones...
• Cycling itself is fat burning exercise.. so there will be health benefits as well, particularly major cities have high percent of obese population ..(well .. economically upward people may not enjoy cycling .. but even if small percentage of them find cycling attractive .. just s a fashion/fad.. then obese population could be reduced..)
• Government can even explore giving away bicycles to public strictly for the ride on the skyways.. so that people need not carry bicycles and lift/climb upto skyways. This measure would certainly attract more and more people ..who would otherwise find it unattractive to cycle from home to skyway entry points.

I may add few more lines... and I also wish reader of this blogs may also contribute their ideas including pros and cons in bringing the idea into reality.