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No track yet, but BMC wants you to cycle
Updated On: 08 March, 2020 06:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
Civic body is planning to launch a Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) system that failed to take off in Pune
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The Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) system was previously launched in Pune and Navi Mumbai. Representational pic
The BMC may have failed to build cycle tracks in the city, but it is still finding ways to encourage the use of bicycles, as part of its green initiative. Next on its agenda is introducing an app-based Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) system, which will be implemented through private operators, supplying electric cycles and cycle stands.
The BMC had started work on a R450-crore-cycle track project along the Tansa pipeline, which was supposed to completed by December 2018. The project was to be completed in three phases, but it didn't take off. Plan for a dedicated cycle track along Marine Drive was also stalled. Even the MMRDA failed to start operation on a 13 km-long cycle track in Bandra Kurla Complex that was built at a cost of R6.5 crore in 2011. The track wasn't getting any response and the authorities decided to shut it down in 2016.
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