Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s cycle monitor undertaking, which was designed to encourage biking, has didn’t enthuse folks to go for more healthy mode of commute due to low public consciousness in regards to the tracks.
Although the town wants a whole community of bicycle lanes, most of the present bike lane sections are laborious to see, placing cyclists in danger. Enhancing visibility and connecting these lanes higher is necessary for retaining cyclists secure and making the biking system work nicely.
Santhana Selvan, the Bicycle Mayor of Hyderabad, instructed the Deccan Chronicle, “One of many greatest points is that many cycle tracks are blocked by distributors and parked automobiles.”
Biking is getting tougher within the metropolis as too many accidents are reported on the cycle tracks, making dad and mom frightened about letting their kids take the cycle to varsity.
In Toli Chowki, cycle tracks are blocked by distributors promoting building supplies, whereas the tracks in KBR Park are getting used as parking zones.
Sneha Trivedi, a content material strategist and a mom of a four-year-old child, mentioned: “Security is utmost necessary while you need folks to make use of biking tracks. The largest concern of letting my daughter use the monitor is the rushing vehicles which race on the town roads. I’ve seen a number of accidents on biking tracks. Hyderabad roads will not be secure. Rushing Merc and Audi are all over the place.”
In 2024, there have been 15 accidents involving cyclists on the cycle monitor on the service street. Key areas with cycle tracks embrace Hitech Metropolis, NTR Gardens, Lumbini Park, Necklace Street, KBR Park, Banjara Hills, Jubilee Hills, Shamshabad, Gachibowli, and the Nehru Outer Ring Street.
“Safer roads want devoted biking tracks with out being blocked. The riskiest areas are interior metropolis roads the place cycle tracks are blocked, (Mehdipatnam Street and the route from Chandanagar to Panjagutta on the Internal Ring Street). Different Indian cities like Bengaluru, Ludhiana, and Chennai, are higher for cyclists than Hyderabad,” mentioned Ravi Sambari, co-founder of Hyderabad Biking Revolution.
To stop accidents, Hyderabad Metropolitan Growth Authority (HMDA) will quickly set up crash obstacles alongside the cycle monitor from Nanakramguda to TGPA and from Narsingi to Kollur.
Nonetheless an official from HMDA mentioned: “It’s normal information to not drive quick on highways or any roads, but folks do it making it tough for drivers to keep up management, resulting in accidents on the cycle monitor.”
Sources say that the Multi-Fashionable Integration (MMI) undertaking, which was began close to the Ameerpet metro station to facilitate simpler commuting can be not functioning correctly.
