New bicycles to be added; 48 additional docking stations to come up
Mysore/Mysuru: The Trin Trin bicycle service will be restarted soon with new features and the Gujarat-based company, which has been awarded the tender, is busy docking new bicycles at the existing 52 docking stations across the city.
Trin Trin, the Public Bicycle Sharing (PBS) system, which has completed six years, was temporarily stopped on Mar. 31, 2023 to gear up for new arrangements. About 1,000 new hi-tech pedal assist bicycles will be made available.
There are a total of 52 docking stations across the city as of now and an additional 48 docking stations will come up for which place identification process is underway.
City’s Public Bicycle Sharing service was launched on June 4, 2017 and it completed six years of service on June 4 this year. The PBS service was launched by Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) in association with City Road Transport Division and the maintenance was given to Mysuru-based Green Wheel Drive Company through a tender. The company was operating with 450 bicycles including 30 geared bicycles. Now this company’s term has ended and the new tender has been awarded to Gujarat-based Green Pedia Bike Share Private Limited for five years for Rs. 4 crore. Green Pedia Bike Share Private Limited has opened its Office and workshop on Adichunchanagiri Road in Kuvempunagar and the company is preparing to re-launch the services soon.
Laying of synthetic bicycle tracks to be launched soon: Separate synthetic bicycle tracks for Trin Trin users and other bicycle riders will be laid in city soon. Tender process for the same has been completed and in the first phase, a total of 8.5 km synthetic tracks will be laid on various roads.
“Everything is prepared for the inauguration of Trin Trin service. Discussions will be held with the District Minister next week and the inauguration date will be fixed. Also, the work order for laying of separate synthetic bicycle tracks was done before the Assembly polls and the same will be launched soon,” said MCC Commissioner G. Lakshmikantha Reddy.
Just above the docking station a board / digital board can be fixed which shows ADs throughout the day.Also they can fix a plate like number plate in front of the basket and back behind the seat of the bicycle which can carry brands logo . This is similar strategy to revenue earned by cricketers by adding logo to their cricket bat..This will give additional revenue to trin trin. Also this time the trin trin docking station can have a steel frame and ecofriendly roofing sheets to protect the cycles from vagaries of weather. Also fix a signage displaying the name / details of the docking station for people who are new to the city like tourist who don’t know Kannada but want to use trin trin.
Hello Sanjay Kini
Inspite of your poor knowledge about any initiative, you appear to be an arm chair bull shitter suggesting this and that, without a modicum of exprience deminstrated in what you suggest. You are like a canine sniffing around trees and benches in a park, before it directs its water at one of them!
The bicycle scheme, running for years, is very popular in London, financed by banks or other businesses in the city for cleaner environment,and as an advanced city in a developed country, it has lanes contructed for bicycles, where it is safer to ride. Injuries are quickly attended to by the paramedics riding in motor bikes answering a call to provide urgent medical assistance to the cyclist. All health care assistance are free.
In Mysore, any tourist or any one is booking in advance a place in a private hospital emergency unit, if he/she ventures to ride a bicycle on the road, inhabited by reckless car drivers. The private hospital concerned staffed by poor quality medics, fleece the injured victim, if he/she is alive, and with that hefty bill given, the victim wishes he/she was dead!
You try what you preach and then come back to post your experience.