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A city bike dream to transform Bangalore's traffic landscape

Ananth Ranganathan

Re-cycling Bangalore

๏ A community bike scheme

๏ Bicycle stations across city

๏ Members borrow cycle and travel from any source station to destination station

๏ The “why, what, when, how, who” of it all...

The mobility impasse

Source : World City Bike Council

The mobility impasse

BangaloreWhich way do we go?

The mobility impasse

๏ Or a city that is very friendly to people.

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We can have a city that is very friendly to cars.

But we cannot have both.

- Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá Columbia

-Co-winner of 2000 Stockholm Environment Award

Comparison at Munster, Germany

Space occupiedCars vs. Bus vs. Bicycles

For the same number of people

Top Gear – London Race

๏ West to East London -

๏ Race on a weekday morning

๏ Car vs. Bike vs. Boat vs. Public Transport

Race results

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City Bike Schemes

๏ Centrally operated bicycle scheme

๏ Bicycle stations all over the city

๏ Pickup from any station and drop off at any station

๏ Rental charge

P a r is

๏Public bicycle rental programme in Paris

๏20,000 bicycles and 1,450 stations

๏One station every 300 metres

P a r is

๏Automatic rental terminal

๏Spots for dozens of bicycles

๏Maps showing station locations

๏Subscription + rent

P a r is

๏Bicycling as a share of traffic up from 1.63% in 2006-2007 to about 15 % last year

๏Over 3.5 million rides in the first 3 months

๏Decongestion, reduced pollution

๏Bicycles are 99% recyclable

๏City bike scheme economically viable

Copenhagen City Bike

๏World's bicycle capital

๏2.000 city bikes – Free for public use

๏110 city bike-racks

๏Revenues by advertising

Copenhagenize

Copenhagenize

๏30,000 cyclists per day

๏36% of Copenhageners travel on bicycle

๏1,1 million kilometres ridden every day

๏300 km of bike lanes

๏Green city awards

๏Bike on public transport

๏Highest happiness quotient on earth

Namma Bengaluru - Possibilities

๏ A centralized city-bike scheme

๏ Robust security mechanism

๏ Rental scheme with user tracking

๏ Interlink with buses, metro passes

๏ Carry bike in public transport

๏ Parking

Concerns

๏Better safety rate than pedestrians – (NO KIDDING)

๏Rains, sweaty & dirty work

๏Securing the bicycles

๏Parking

๏Motorists' consciousness

Why it'll work

๏ Time, cost, health

๏ Decongestion

๏ Low investment

๏ Last-mile support

๏ The “cool” factor

๏ FUN๏Bangalore has already taken the first steps

towards getting Copenhagenized...

Bangalore Bikers Club

Wo r k s ho p s Critical Mass

Here's to the present and the future...

, Th a n k y o uf o lk s

- Ananth R

mail.ananth.r@gmail.com