{"id":2707,"date":"2020-06-27T08:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T08:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2020-06-27T08:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T08:40:43","slug":"kolkata-newsi-kolkata-likely-to-have-dedicated-cycle-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata newsI Kolkata likely to have dedicated cycle tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"component_9 \" style=\"width:600px;\">\n<div class=\"img-pod\" id=\"articleImg_611830\">\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"article_img_611830\" src=\"https:\/\/imgk.timesnownews.com\/story\/cycle-ians.jpg?tr=w-600,h-450,fo-auto\" alt=\"Kolkata cycle tracks\" title=\"Kolkata cycle tracks\" class=\"lazy-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        KMC mulls to introduce dedicated cycle tracks in Kolkata (Representational photo)&amp;nbsp | &amp;nbspPhoto Credit:&amp;nbspIANS      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Kolkata:<\/strong>\u00a0As people are choosing bicycles more and more as their preferred mode of transportation to avoid COVID-19 infection, Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal&#8217;s largest civic body Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is gearing up to introduce dedicated cycle tracks on the city roads in the wake of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have held a meeting on the issue. Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has given the task to a Delhi-based firm to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) on the matter to introduce dedicated bicycle tracks in Kolkata,&#8221; KMC administrator and West Bengal Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said that the DPR will be submitted to the KMDA within next six months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agency will look into all the aspects on how to facilitate people in riding bicycles on various busy Kolkata roads,&#8221; he said, adding that it is the most cost-effective and environment-friendly transport which will protect people from getting infected by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>KMDA is the statutory planning and development authority for the Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) in the state of West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>Hakim said already a 29-km long dedicated bicycle track is there in New Town-Rajarhat satellite township located on the north-eastern fringes of Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are looking into the aspect of introducing similar things in Kolkata as well,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had encouraged people to ride bicycles as one of the safest modes of transport. In a bid to adjust with the new normal situation, many people in the city have already hit the roads with bicycles, a cost-effective and environment-friendly mode of transport for daily commuters in the testing time COVID-19 crisis.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n  n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n  document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '781440862041802'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('track', 'ViewContent');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.timesnownews.com\/kolkata\/article\/kolkata-likely-to-have-dedicated-cycle-tracks\/611830\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; KMC mulls to introduce dedicated cycle tracks in Kolkata (Representational photo)&amp;nbsp | &amp;nbspPhoto Credit:&amp;nbspIANS Kolkata:\u00a0As people are choosing bicycles more and more as their preferred mode of transportation to avoid COVID-19 infection, Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal&#8217;s largest civic body Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is gearing up to introduce dedicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/cycle-ians.jpgtrw-560h-292fo-top.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}