Hyderabad: Time to pedal your way to health, happiness

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving," avers Albert Einstein. Avid bicycle riders cannot agree more. While it is magical to breeze through on countryside, how they wish to wheel away in cities too. And it is said, the best way to experience city is cycling through its streets.

In good tidings to cycling enthusiasts in Hyderabad, civic authorities are coming up with cycling tracks at two of the major landmarks – Necklace Road and KBR Park. As you cycle around these places, it will surely promise to be a ride to remember.

With rapid development in almost all major centres of the city, the decision to come up with cycling track at Necklace Road and KBR Park comes as a great relief for those who long to hop on and savour the sights and sounds of city's open and scenic places. Chaotic traffic and lack of any designated tracks is the crippling worry. Hence, most cyclists prefer getting out when the city sleeps and when there is minimal traffic. Some ride for leisure, and some for fitness.

The new development is sure to excite such cycling enthusiasts. "Cyclists like us feel inconvenient in riding bicycle on roads as there is much traffic; so, these cycling tracks will be much useful and pleasurable for us," gushes Abhinav Sarkar, a bicycle enthusiast.

The track at Necklace road is already being earmarked and prepared. It is likely to be a total 11-km-long and being set up on either side of a freshly re-carpeted 5.5 km road on the banks of Hussain Sagar.

The other track will be constructed at KBR park between corridors 23 and 26 in Jubilee Hills. These tracks will be specially designed for the cyclists to enjoy and feel their ride.

Earlier, MAUD Principal Secretary Arvind Kumar tweeted: "Cycling tracks comes up on the renovated necklace road alongside Hussain Sagar in Hyderabad, cycling enthusiasts are there in the mornings and this is safe fun" (sic).

The construction works can be expected in a short span of time and when the cycling tracks get ready, many are expected to take to cycling to headway for them. And, there is a safety angle, too. The World Health Organization (WHO) has rooted for cycling as a right mode of transport as well as a way to stay healthy during the ongoing pandemic crisis.