June 9, 2024
With over 550 registrations, the 1st edition of Pedaluru had a great start. Event day saw the cyclists turn up early in the morning at Kanteerava stadium on Sunday, 9th June. Pedaluru 2024 turned out to be a grand success in that, citizen cyclists from the city for this not-for-profit event which is a 1st step in galvanising cyclists of Bengaluru into a strong community. City Traffic police Jt.Commissioner Shri.Anucheth was the chief guest for this event.
Pedaluru partner AltMo awarded its 1st corporate award to an MNC that showed commitment to environmental sustainability by creating challenges for employee cycling to work. Shilpi Sahu of Qualcomm was the recipient of the award. Many professionals from other corporates too signed up to promote cycling as a commute option to compete for awards for our next edition in 2025.
GiZ India and CfAM organised this event as part of the 3 main goals to encourage cycling as a sustainable
mode of urban commute.
Manjunath Shekar - the Head of sustainable urban mobility program in GiZ said, ‘Bengaluru is the leading city in the country where cycling is supported with such large turnouts. There is a strong recognition of this in MoHUA which is the reason why they readily partnered for Pedaluru 2024. GiZ is committed to supporting our partners in India to add cycling as a practical cycling option, contributing to clean air and sustainable
cities.’
Sathya Sankaran - the bicycle Mayor of Bengaluru said, ‘More corporates must step up their incentives for cycling in a manner that can be quantifiable and measured for impact. Pedaluru 2025 is going to be bigger with greater corporate adoption measured by their individual impact on encouraging sustainable urban
mobility.’
Pedaluru is a citizen-driven, not-for-profit event aimed at galvanising the cycling community for a show of strength to broadly achieve 3 main goals:
Plan: Work with the city govt to have cycling be an integral part of our NMT policy, support BMLTA to come
into effect and enhance road-share for safe cycling in the city.
Engage: Engage with the cyclists of the city, with citizen groups, civic activists and corporates to adopt cycling as an ideal option for commute. Campaigns through social media and on-ground activations to encourage cycling in the city.
Build: Advocacy and design for better cycling infrastructure, enforce traffic laws for cyclist safety and make Bengaluru the cycling capital of the country. Work closely with govt agencies such as: DULT, BBMP, BMRCL,
K-Rail, Bengaluru Smart City etc to achieve above goals.
Pedaluru is supported by the Indo-German Development Cooperation project “Sustainable Urban Mobility: Air Quality, Climate Action, and Accessibility” (SUM-ACA). The project is jointly implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), the Government of India, and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Pedaluru is supported by AltMo. AltMo is a climate action platform for quantifying the impact of climate positive sustainable transport choices. It allows corporations to engage employees to switch their work and end mile commute to sustainable transport and report on their emissions.
