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Such investment in cycling improvement is expected to benefit the city and the public, with
Improving public health
Improving road safety
Reduction in air pollution as more people opt for cycling
Providing an eco-friendly, affordable transportation option
Systematic and substantial efforts to improve and support cycling are in line with the policy and directives of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affiars, as well as PMC’s own policy to support sustainable mobility in the city.
4. Cycling Improvement Proposals 1. Vision and Objective Vision: Make Pune a cycling-friendly city where cycling is safe, comfortable, convenient, attractive and enjoyable. Objective: Increase the modal share of cycling from the current 3% to 25%, by the year 2031. 2.
Aims The aims of the Pune Cycle Plan are to: a. Create a consensual vision and multi-stakeholder buy-in for cycling b. Create an appropriate and robust institutional structure as part of the Pune Municipal Corporation to anchor, implement, and review the Pune Cycle Plan c. Ensure public engagement and user participation in the development of cycle and walk friendly infrastructure and its monitoring d. Retain the existing share of bicyclists, and encourage potential users to use bicycles e. Make bicycle the preferred mode of transport as compared to motorized modes f.
Ensure integration between cycling and public transport, and ensure integration of cycling as a mode of transportation
g. Make travel demand management strategies sensitive to cycling and NMV users. h. Ensure that the urban road infrastructure, including cycle only greenways, is designed / retrofitted to an agreed standard and is cycling friendly i.
Provide secure parking for bicycles.
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Ensure that all traffic infrastructure projects, policies, plans and traffic management projects efforts should prioritize cycling and are cycle-friendly
k. Provide walk and cycle-friendly routes to all schools, adequate bicycle parking facilities within schools, and bicycle training to all school pupils. l.
Promote cycling through a range of engagement and awareness activities
3. Bicycle Department at PMC The PMC shall set up a Bicycle Department and the implementation of the Bicycle Plan will be done through this Bicycle Department.
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