Guided Cycle
tours for
Chandigarhians
You’ll
see things with
us, you’d likely to miss
otherwise...
In the age of flashy
motorbikes & jazzy cars, why ride on Cycles?
Because all the two, three
and four wheelers, the motorbikes and cars run on polluting fuels i.e.
petrol
and diesel. According to latest State of
Environment
Report-2004 the vehicular pollution in
Chandigarh
has increased 10 times in
Chandigarh
since 1981. The number of motorized vehicles in
Chandigarh has increased by approx.
42 times
from about 12,345 in 1971 to 5,22,435 in 2001 and is now over 6 lacs in
2004,
and 200 vehicles are daily added in this growing list.
Chandigarh has
highest per capita vehicles in
the country.
What difference Cycles can
make?
The life-blood of a city is
its people. Fine architecture and green spaces count for nothing
without people
in the picture, We want
Chandigarh
to be a ‘Peace-city’ that puts people first and this is only possible
if we
make more and more use of Cycles.
Vehicles carry people
fast and Cycles are slow?
Yes! vehicles takes us
fast, but at what cost? At the cost of your life and
health. Every second day a person dies in
Chandigarh
in road accident. The increase in diseases like headache, malaise, nausea,
dryness in throat, chest congestion or any other respiratory disorder in urban
cities like Chandigarh are primarily due to toxic gases that are being spewed
out by vehicles around you.
Chandigarh is a busy place. People need to travel, but most
people can travel and move easily under their own power i.e. by
Cycling and Walking, both are cheap, quick, quiet and clean. People
power: you go where ever you like, for as long as you like.
Chandigarh is a small
city with distance from one end to another, not more than 10 kms and
it can be covered easily on Cycles.
Is it possible?
Many
a times people of
Chandigarh has shown what
can be done. The challenge is to create a safe and attractive city. A
city fit
for people. The way forward...everyone who ride a Cycle or walks is
doing the
city an enormous favour. Every cyclist is one less vehicle, one less
parking
space, less noise, a few less lungs full of fumes. Ride on Cycles is
healthy,
enjoyable, economical.
