Chandigarh, December 20th, 2022 || Cycling tour of City Beautiful Chandigarh was arranged today morning for 100 city officials from 35+ cities across India came to participate in the Healthy Streets Capacity Building Workshop. Participants experienced the bicycle infrastructure, the cycle tracks, the intersections and the junctions. The routes were carefully planned to ensure that the site visit gives the deeper insight about Chandigarh’s cycling friendly infrastructure.
Cycling tour was planned in two groups in which participants of one group named Team Corbusier started from Leisure Valley, Sector 10 and other group named Team Nek Chand started from Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Sector 26, Chandigarh.
The entire cycle ride was a treasure hunt in which the two teams were to answer questions about cycling, Chandigarh’s Infrastructure etc. Both teams were given pieces of jigsaw puzzle to reassemble at the final destination. In true spirit of Chandigarh, the Corbusier team won.
“Chandigarh is a case study for how cycling can be prioritized and popularized on our streets.” said by Sh. Rahul Kapoor, Director, Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs.
Traffic Cycle Marshals joined the participants to guided them throughout the route.
“Chandigarh was chosen amongst the top 11 cities of the India Cycles4Change Challenge and has been a front runner city in the Streets4People Challenge. As a lighthouse city with over 200 kms of safe cycling infrastructure and having India’s largest Public Bicycle Sharing System and to have adopted the Healthy Streets Policy, we tried to give maximum exposure about Chandigarh city’s infrastructure to the participants of the workshop.” said by Ms. Mitra.
Ms. Isha Kamboj, Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Mr. Anil Kumar Garg, Additional Chief Executive Officer, Chandigarh Smart City Limited and Mr. N.P. Sharma, Chief General Manager, Chandigarh Smart City Limited, other officers and employees of Chandigarh Smart City and Municipal Corporation Chandigarh also participated in the cycling event.