Germany opens the first three-mile stretch of a 62 mile bicycle highway thats car and lorry free. Sunny Skyz says it will be like a traditional highway having passing lanes, overpasses and underpasses for cross roads and even streetlights. 'Its just a clear path for miles and miles.' Me am a non-cyclist, but drooled over the colour pix of the cycleway. Khushboo Narayan and Ravi Krishnan could be the first Indians to trundle the cycleway; a month or so ago. Khushboo fell off her cycle, cracked her wrist and is recovering to cycle again in Mumbai where cyclists, runners and walkers are shunned. Maybe it is irritating news for Gadkari and Javadekar keen on building 10-lane highways through wildlife sanctuaries; or Devendra Fadnavis insistent on a coastal road for cars. How is it Germany is more imaginative than India; more compassionate, when India claims to be the oldest and greatest civilisation. Will something similar work in India? If even-odd is making sense in New Delhi, a cycleway in Mumbai could well be applauded. Kick-off could be with modifying LIC Colony road into a 24x7 cycleway with runners and walkers. Have been on this piece of arcing road for near to 16 years, many mornings, being an irregular walker; a cyclist, a runner and a walker need unhurried lengths of cement or dust tracks to pause and stare at trees, birds or nothing; booming cars disturb the contemplation; a Ruskin Bond will tell you a little bit of aimless-ness is healthy. If that is not possible, have a request for Linus Chettiar, an active pilgrim of Immaculate Church at Mount Poinsur in Borivili (W), housing in IC Colony. We have worked together at Business Line, Mumbai. A narrow up and down one-way tarred strip, some six feet wide, runs between IC Church and St. Francis School; bikers generally make it a two-way facility; BEST buses run the road, taking it entirely; cars and mini lorries push aside walkers and school children; at around 5.30 in the evening parents crowd the area to pick up their children from the school as vehicles try their very best to run them down. Can this five-minute walking stretching be turned into a no-traffic zone? Request Linus Chettiar to discuss the subject with Church monks and nuns as alternate routes exist; school kids run the piece of road in fun and me prays for them to no one. And then there is St. Francis ground -- these days, more plastic waste than green or brown grass. Mornings, school kids kick more plastic than footballs. At one end of the ground is a cement stage and elders have turned the behinds of the stage into a urinal when there is one in the ground. These parts fall within IC Colony, with a signboard for cleanliness and greens. Am prepared to offer services to collect the plastic waste at the St. Francis ground. Now, dear friend Linus, please can you help; its just a request; you know the Church.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
IC Church, St. Francis school
Germany opens the first three-mile stretch of a 62 mile bicycle highway thats car and lorry free. Sunny Skyz says it will be like a traditional highway having passing lanes, overpasses and underpasses for cross roads and even streetlights. 'Its just a clear path for miles and miles.' Me am a non-cyclist, but drooled over the colour pix of the cycleway. Khushboo Narayan and Ravi Krishnan could be the first Indians to trundle the cycleway; a month or so ago. Khushboo fell off her cycle, cracked her wrist and is recovering to cycle again in Mumbai where cyclists, runners and walkers are shunned. Maybe it is irritating news for Gadkari and Javadekar keen on building 10-lane highways through wildlife sanctuaries; or Devendra Fadnavis insistent on a coastal road for cars. How is it Germany is more imaginative than India; more compassionate, when India claims to be the oldest and greatest civilisation. Will something similar work in India? If even-odd is making sense in New Delhi, a cycleway in Mumbai could well be applauded. Kick-off could be with modifying LIC Colony road into a 24x7 cycleway with runners and walkers. Have been on this piece of arcing road for near to 16 years, many mornings, being an irregular walker; a cyclist, a runner and a walker need unhurried lengths of cement or dust tracks to pause and stare at trees, birds or nothing; booming cars disturb the contemplation; a Ruskin Bond will tell you a little bit of aimless-ness is healthy. If that is not possible, have a request for Linus Chettiar, an active pilgrim of Immaculate Church at Mount Poinsur in Borivili (W), housing in IC Colony. We have worked together at Business Line, Mumbai. A narrow up and down one-way tarred strip, some six feet wide, runs between IC Church and St. Francis School; bikers generally make it a two-way facility; BEST buses run the road, taking it entirely; cars and mini lorries push aside walkers and school children; at around 5.30 in the evening parents crowd the area to pick up their children from the school as vehicles try their very best to run them down. Can this five-minute walking stretching be turned into a no-traffic zone? Request Linus Chettiar to discuss the subject with Church monks and nuns as alternate routes exist; school kids run the piece of road in fun and me prays for them to no one. And then there is St. Francis ground -- these days, more plastic waste than green or brown grass. Mornings, school kids kick more plastic than footballs. At one end of the ground is a cement stage and elders have turned the behinds of the stage into a urinal when there is one in the ground. These parts fall within IC Colony, with a signboard for cleanliness and greens. Am prepared to offer services to collect the plastic waste at the St. Francis ground. Now, dear friend Linus, please can you help; its just a request; you know the Church.
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