3. Vision and Goals

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.

The goals of the Pune Cycle Plan are to: 1. Create a consensual vision and multi-stakeholder buy-in for cycling 2. Create an appropriate and robust institutional structure as part of the Pune Municipal

Corporation to anchor, implement, and review the Pune Cycle Plan 3. Ensure public engagement and user participation in the development of cycle and walk friendly infrastructure and its monitoring 4. Retain the existing share of bicyclists, and encourage potential users to use bicycles 5. Make bicycle the preferred travel mode as compared to other motorized modes 6. Ensure integration between cycling and public transport, and ensure integration of cycling as a mode of transportation 7. Make travel demand management strategies sensitive to cycling and users of non-motorized vehicles 8. Ensure that the urban road infrastructure, including cycle only greenways, is designed / retrofitted to an agreed standard and is cycling friendly 9. Provide secure parking for bicycles 10. Ensure that traffic infrastructure projects, policies, plans and traffic management project efforts should prioritize and are cycling-friendly 11. Provide walk and cycle-friendly routes to all schools, adequate bicycle parking facilities within schools, and bicycle training to all school pupils 12. Promote cycling through a range of engagement and awareness activities