WARANGAL GETS AN EXCLUSIVE CYCLING TRACK

The Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) has completed laying a new cycling track set up between Fatima junction and Subedari in Hanamkonda.

The project was taken up as part of the India Cycles4Change Challenge, an initiative of the Centre.s Smart Cities Mission, to support cities to quickly implement cycling-friendly initiatives.

The city featured as one of the 25 stage 1 list of finalists in the cycles4change challenge. GWMC has completed stage two of the challenge, which is the implementation of the proposal.

GWMC commissioner Pamela Satpathy told Deccan Chronicle they have chosen the best possible location for the two-km cycle track.

“With educational institutions like the National Institute of Technology, the University Arts and Science College and others in the vicinity, we believed this stretch would be best suited for providing a cycling track. Warangal is one of the only four cities to finish the pilot project from scratch,” she said.

“In the next phase, we have plans to set up another 54 km of cycling track in the GWMC area in the coming days,” the commissioner said.

Pamela Satpathy added that the administration intends to first inculcate the practice of cycling and bring about acceptance from the people to advance its efforts in promoting cycling. Asked about vendors occupying the track and the bollards placed to restrict the entry of two-wheelers, the commissioner said they will take the support of the police to shift the fruit vendors to designated zones.

“We measured and decided the spacing between bollards so that only cycles can pass through and not two-wheelers,” she said.