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10-31-08, 09:59 AM
I had no idea there was even an issue. My first view of India was a taxi ride into Delhi and one of the first shocks was the many different types of vehicles and bicycles on the roads, not to mention huge cows ambling about. I recall seeing a guy with no legs riding a bike by moving these pedals on the handlebars. There would be several people on a bike. Now they have to have critical mass? Although I can't really remember an instance of a woman pedaling her bike while wearing a sari, I don't know why not since I saw woman in saris doing hard labor at construction sites and even swimming at the beach. This article makes it seem like there is a woman's issue. Words and pictures can't begin to describe a crowded street in a large Indian city when I was there 20 years ago. Horses, donkeys, camels, cars, trucks, wild pigs, dogs, monkies, oxcarts, bikes, scooters, motor cycles everything all mixed up and going every which way. This article makes it seem like today its all car centric and bikes have been pushed out. Any Indians on the list who care to tell us how the cities have changed for bicyclists in the last 30 years?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Delhiites_to_go_pedalling_today/articleshow/3655964.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Delhiites_to_go_pedalling_today/articleshow/3655964.cms