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BBC NEWS | South Asia | India's techies take to cycling
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nearly three million vehicles clog 500km (300 miles) of Bangalore's gridlocked
roads, with 1,000 new vehicles added every day. -
Concerns over traffic conditions and the environment, combined with the
sedentary lifestyles peculiar to the software sector, have all combined to
promote cycling to work in Bangalore. - 1 more annotations...
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Cyclists in city ask for more pedal - Mumbai - Cities - The Times of India
Activists Fawzan Javed and Colin Christopher, who initiated the move for the meeting, felt that starting a bicycle movement in Bandra would set a precedent for other suburbs to follow
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Add Sticky Notea public meeting at the Carter Road amphitheatre, Bandra (W), to popularise
cycling in the city to check pollution and reduce traffic congestion -
Activists Fawzan Javed and Colin Christopher, who initiated the move for the
meeting, felt that starting a bicycle movement in Bandra would set a precedent
for other suburbs to follow.
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Welcome to Pukar
Describes an NGO geared towards improving urban centers.
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DO YOU
Live in Mumbai? Have curiosity and concern about your city? Want to explore these curiosities and concerns? Want to have fun while discovering your city, locality and
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PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action & Research) is an independent
research–action organization. PUKAR wants to encourage youth to generate
research projects on diverse aspects of MUMBAI through the Youth Fellowship
Programme.Supported by the
Sir Ratan Tata Trust, the Youth Fellowship Programme has facilitated more
than 100 research projects on diverse aspects Mumbai in the last four years.
More than 1200 youth have generated new knowledge about Mumbai through these
projects.
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MMRDA - Projects - Mumbai Urban Transport Project
Useful for gathering general information about transportation policy in Mumbai. Also useful for finding someone to interview.
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Greenest city of India to promote ‘bike tourism’
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CITCO has put around 10 ultra-modern bicycles, fitted with gearboxes, at the
Sukhna Lake, one of the major tourist destinations here. Anyone interested in
cycling can take these bicycles on rent.
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NGOs | Jaag, Thane | Cycle Foundation | Cycle your way to a pollution-free city | Library of Articles | Library | Journals | Articles | Information | Online Article Library | Karmayog.org"
Useful for info on different NGOs.
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Three local NGOs — JAAG, Hariyali Foundation, Andhashraddha Nirmulan
Samiti
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Bicycle commuting | Cycles of all sorts
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In the West it is common to combine bicycle commuting with other means of public
transportation (also known as mixed-mode commuting). Folding bicycles are used
if space, fees or restrictions interfere with taking full size bicycles along.
Another alternative is to have a bicycle parked at a station. -
There are a number of issues to be addressed with respect to cycle commuting,
many of which are raised as objections by those who choose not to do so. While
it is undoubtedly a matter of personal choice, and these concerns are not
without basis in fact, it is true to say that there are very few issues which
have not been solved in one way or another by those who are committed to cycle
commuting.
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Cycling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cycling is the use of bicycles
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Road bikes tend to have a more upright shape and a shorter wheelbase, which
make the bike more mobile but harder to ride slowly. The design, coupled with
low or dropped handlebars, requires the rider to bend forward more, utilizing
stronger muscles and reducing air resistance at high speed.
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Bicycle Statistical Data: Usage, Productions and Sales
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Hard facts on bike usage, production, sales, imports, exports and trade are
hard to come by. Many of the best statistics are buried in papers that are
presented at conferences such as VeloCity, ProBike and the Transportation
Research Board (TRB). Sometimes these papers are published after the conferences
but it can then be difficult to get a hold of the proceeding, and then they
aren't very well indexed so you have to go through all of all of them to extract
anything that might be useful to you. -
Tokyo Japan Cost of owning a
car is high: fuel taxes double those of the United States account for almost
half of the price of gas; automobile tax levies and vehicle inspection fees
amount to an average of almost $2,000 annually.
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