Use of bicycles for transportation is the best activity for saving earth’s environment as well as our personal health. Most of the people who prefers bicycles as a transport medium is reducing day by day in some of the countries, even though it has advantages in terms of physical health as well as environment conditions.
Due to use of bicycles in transportation, overall time requires for journey is more as compare to other transport modes as like motorcycle, cars, public transports. So, bicycles are more time consuming for transport. Moreover, we have muliple facilities are available for the transportation. Because of ease of transit, free of hectic journey, people prefers vehicles over the bicycles. Along with that, in todays world, earning power of people is increasing as well as standard of living is also improving. Hence, they are generally prefering personal vehicle or else book a private cab or auto-rikshaw rather than go with bicycles.
To encouraged the use of bicyles, we have to take initiative and need to arrange some social activities. We can also arrange some competitions which can create a social awarness among the people. For example, private organizations can give extra vantage points to employees who will come to office by using bicycles. Along with this social initiative, government should introduce some new policies which can encoraged people to use the bicyles. For instance, government can provide subsidies to people who will buy the bicycles, as well as, they can make a separate road for bicycle transit.
In conclusion, there is decrease of the bicycle’s use by many people from certain countries due to it’s time consumption of travel, earning power of people, available facilities and standard of living. To increase in the bicycle’s use in the transportation, we have to make social awarness about, not only environmental but also personal health with the help of government as well as social activities.