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MANILA, Philippines – Here’s another round of good news for bike enthusiasts living in Metro Manila.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be launching a bike-sharing scheme, alongside the opening of a bicycle lane in Quezon City.
In a statement, the MMDA said through the “bike-kadahan” or bike-sharing scheme, riders get to use MMDA bikes for free – as long as they have a valid ID with them.
Upon reaching the designated exit areas, bike borrowers need to hand back a card with the bike number.
MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino said he hoped the scheme would encourage the use of bikes as an alternative mode of transportation. Among the MMDA’s plans to encourage the use of bikes are the deployment of a small trailer truck as free “mobile bicycle shelters” along bike lanes in the metro. (READ: DPWH to open more bike lanes in Quezon City)
According to the MMDA, the mobile shelters can carry up to 50 bicycles at a time. MMDA personnel will be tasked with manning the bike shelters.
More and more Filipinos have been advocating the use of bikes as an alternative means of transportation. House Bill 3827 or the “Bicyclist Act of 2014,” proposes the establishment of Local Bikeways Offices (LBO) in all cities and municipalities across the country.
A group of citizens, meanwhile, filed a petition to divide public roads in half – one part for cars, and the other for collective transport systems which include all-weather bike lanes and sidewalks, bus rapid transit (which the country doesn’t have in place yet), and public trains. – Rappler.com
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