POST Lockdown : Cycle, A physically distanced and Sustainable single-person transport
Cycling can be safest and healthiest option for H2O-O2H commute and short distance travel post lockdown in Pune. We all are aware, the COVID-19 virus is a sleeping volcano and challenging to keep ourselves safe and healthy post lockdown. In this challenging scenario the local body and authority like local civic body, Municipal Councils and Commissioner of traffic Police should plan to encourage the cycling in the city on permanent basis. Yes, you read it right on lasting basis. To accommodate this change streets can made busier with bikes, as well as can facilitate social distancing. There must be a dedicated cycling lane on each smallest and biggest route in the city. This is the time we can encourage and make people habitual to use the cycle and make them dependent on cycle like most of the world regions already doing. Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin, Budapest, London and so many cities adapted before. Keeping in mind, while enforcing or so called encouraging for cycling, the basic infra