Silvassa is at the crossroads. Nestled in the Union Territory (UT) of Dadra & Nagar Haveli (DNH), its industrialisation effort two decades ago has given it many businesses, from multinationals to SME’s, which number more than 2500. The Special Economic Zones and Value Added Tax regimes gave the UT’s a…

You’re in a cozy café sipping coffee after a long yet rejuvenating day out with your bestie. You’ve shopped till you’ve dropped, eaten like there’s no tomorrow and even walked miles together, a perfect way to end a stressful week. Your friend grabs your hand in the huge crowd so…

The pandemic and climate emergency provide us an opportunity to not be where we find ourselves today. Stuck in homes looking for things we left behind in 2020. However, the old normal is not going to get us to where we need to go. The old normal is what got…

…has to outweigh the rewards of competition. By Sathya Sankaran, Coordinator for the UMTA Now! Campaign and Consultant on Sustainable Mobility with inputs from Satyajit Arikutharam, Transport Expert. Bengaluru, like other cities in the country, has been creating transport agencies as different modes of transportation appeared over the years. The government of Mysore State formed the Bangalore…

Authored by: Lucas Snaije, Research & Advocacy Manager, BYCS Sathya Sankaran, Co-Founder Urban Morph & Bicycle Mayor Bengaluru In most cities around the world, streets make up around 80% of all public space. They are the lifeblood of urban life, and can enable cultural vitality, commerce, and a safe place…

Over the last few years, Bengaluru has been trying to make concrete moves towards becoming more Public Transport & Active Mobility friendly. The Cycle Day and Cycle To Work programs led to increase in attention towards cycling infrastructure in the city’s Comprehensive Mobility Plan and Pop-Up cycle lanes during the…

Clubbing our way on #WorldBicycleDay2021. Psst… Virtual thou 🙂. We hosted the first town hall of #ReliefRiders on the Clubhouse app and had a ball of a time. Themed around #PedalForLife, the discussion was mostly around how cycling creates a positive impact in the long run. The agenda you may…

Once again panic over the COVID infection number in India has the government throwing a lot of resources into keeping people indoors, enforce lockdown etc. This may have yielded spread control results pre-vaccine. Now everybody knows the real solution lies in vaccination: continuous and quick. I recently walked into a…

A couple of days ago, the interviewer from BYCS asked me an interesting question. Who is to blame for the lack progress in provisioning more infrastructure for climate friendly modes? While the question was specific to cycling, it’s useful to extrapolate to all climate change mitigation strategies. My immediate response…