Get on your bike, Bulawayo residents urged - Plan to get inhabitants of Zimbabwe’s second city to cycle to reduce pollution faces hurdles, including that two-wheelers are spurned by the upwardly mobile
which, among other things, seeks to persuade residents to take their foot off the fuel pedal of their vehicles and hop onto bikes.
The ambitions of Zimbabwe’s second city are to make its own small climate-action contribution to reducing carbon emissions by appealing to residents to choose muscle-powered two-wheelers over fossil-fuel guzzling motor vehicles. “This mode of transport can assist the city to achieve a green economy, in line with Sustainable Development Goal number 13 on climate action,” Mpofu told theseeks to “strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries”. It is localised climate action, such as the promotion of green energy, that is expected to spur the realisation of those goals.
“To the younger generation, the use of bicycles symbolises downward social mobility, incongruent to the new millennium definition of success,” Dube told the M&G., titled Walking and Cycling in Africa — Evidence and Good Practice to Inspire Action, “most [African] countries still lack policies, appropriate infrastructure and budgets for protecting vulnerable road users”.
“We have a cycling track in Bulawayo, which dates back to the 1950 or 1960s, that is owned by the City of Bulawayo, and leased to a football club,” said Dave Loxton, spokesperson for the Flying Eagles Cycling club in Bulawayo.
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