{"id":29510,"date":"2018-04-30T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=29510"},"modified":"2018-04-30T04:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T04:35:24","slug":"now-bengalurus-very-own-bicycle-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=29510","title":{"rendered":"Now Bengaluru\u2019s very own Bicycle Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

City will join Dutch programme to promote use of bicycles among urban commuters<\/h2>\n
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Come May, Bengaluru will have its first \u2018Bicycle Mayor,\u2019 or BM, with as many as 19 cycling enthusiasts in the city vying for the post.<\/p>\n

The winner will get an opportunity to bring together the city\u2019s cycling community and take up advocacy with the government to bring more bicycles onto the roads.<\/p>\n

Honorary two-year position<\/h2>\n

The Bicycle Mayor, an honorary two-year position, is a global programme envisioned by the Amsterdam-based NGO ByCS. The group is targeting a world with 50% of all city trips covered by bicycles by 2030. Bengaluru will be the third city in the country to have a BM, after Baroda and Guwahati.<\/p>\n

ByCS has joined hands with the Evangelical Social Action Forum (ESAF), an NGO, to introduce the programme in India. ESAF is one of the organisers of BCOS (the Bengaluru Coalition for Open Streets), which initiated the Cycle Day concept in October 2013.<\/p>\n

The applicants for BM include cycling enthusiasts, activists and those who have been actively involved in making Bengaluru bicycle-friendly, said Manju George, Senior Programme Manager, ESAF, Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe applications were open for ten days and closed on April 23. After May 12, we will make the announcement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Cycling enthusiast and activist Murali H.R., involved with several bicycle projects in the city in coordination with the Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), says there is a lot to be done to implement the existing regulations. \u201cWe have had DULT and BBMP for over 10 years now. We are partially successful. This [BM] will be a confidence booster for the work that we have been doing thus far.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nikita Lalwani, Bicycle Mayor of Vadodara. | Photo Credit: Email Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nikita Lalwani, who was selected BM of Vadodara (Baroda) last year, is working to encourage corporate professionals and students to make use of bicycles regularly. Having represented India at the Bicycle Mayor summit in Amsterdam in 2017, Ms. Lalwani said, \u201cWe need to begin by changing the image that cycles have in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

BM of Guwahati Arshel Akhter, who took charge recently, aims to start by working with educational institutions and corporate establishments to set up parking slots for bicycles, and encouraging more people to use bicycles regularly.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.thehindu.com \/ The Hindu \/ Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru \/ by Shruthi H M \/ Bengaluru – April 30th, 2018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City will join Dutch programme to promote use of bicycles among urban commuters Come May, Bengaluru will have its first \u2018Bicycle Mayor,\u2019 or BM, with as many as 19 cycling enthusiasts in the city vying for the post. The winner will get an opportunity to bring together the city\u2019s cycling community and take up advocacy … Continue reading Now Bengaluru\u2019s very own Bicycle Mayor<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-green-initiatives-environment","category-records-all"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29515,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29510\/revisions\/29515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}