Car Free Thursday gets push from Commissioner
Hyderabad, Dec 17 (INN): Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand today joined the Car Free Thursday team to give more push to the campaign.
The Commissioner, along with 200 plus Industry leaders, volunteers and school students have cycled from Cyient circle to Cyberabad Commissioner office where he has addressed the media.
Sharing his views on the campaign, the Commissioner said that it was concerning to see the number of growing vehicles on daily basis which is leading to major traffic jams and pollution. If this continues, the situation will be out of control, as we do not have the mechanism to handle it. Therefore, the campaigns like Car Free Thursday will be able to make people to use more public transportation, cycle to work or walk. 'We will be supporting this campaign by introducing makeshift cycle lanes, from IIIT junction till Wipro to start with.In addition, we will also sensitize corporate companies take this up in a big way and encourage employees for carpooling, cycling and walking etc.,' he said.
HYSEA President Ramesh Loganathan, who also joined the ride with Commissioner said, 'we were successful in building awareness among the citizens but the critical now to create a framework that incentivizes more and more people to practice this regularly. Till date we could run this program with the help of volunteers. Now, we are planning to get a dedicated team in addition to the volunteers at least for one year.'
'Over the past one year, SCSC has been very active on working on road safety issues by way of putting in more surveillance systems in place, enlisting many traffic volunteers to work along with the traffic police to manage traffic and also by way of running SHE shuttles to facilitate travel of women employees. We are very happy for the Cyberabad Commissioner of Police himself joining the cycle ride today and providing leadership for the Car Free Thursday campaign. This will certainly motivate many others to join this movement' said Bharani Aroll, Secretary, SCSC.
The campaign has been driven by HYSEA&SCSC in association with TSIIC,RTC, Cyberabad Police. IdentCITY has conceptualized it. WRIIndia(previously EMBARQ) as a knowledge partner. Partners include Ascendas, Cykul, Zify, ACT Carpool, Commut, Raastha Studios, Extent IT solutions, Sride, Polaris and other IT companies.
News Posted: 17 December, 2015
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