Clean Dhaka?
Photo: Palash Khan / Driknews
Non-motorized vehicles (NMV) run by people without machine, which include bicycles, cycle rickshaws and carts, may play a vital role in urban transport sector in Dhaka. It is used for short trips in many Asian cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, and even in our nearest Indian cities such as Bangalore, Chennai etc. In Europe, the government encourages the people to use NMV to save the environment, health, money etc. It removes traffic jams from the cities. Bodies are fuelled by food diet which plays an important role in how the body performs. There are several benefits of cycling. You can use the cycle to go to the office in the morning. All kinds of medicines, protein deficiency, excessive salts in the blood, indigestion, all are directly involved in increasing the blood pressure and in that case cycling strongly acts to stabilize the blood pressure, removes obesity, cholesterol, ensures good digestion and eventually it helps to make the actual good shape of the body. Transport planning and investment in most of Asia has focused principally on the motorized transport sector and has often ignored the need for having non-motorized transport. Without changes in policy, NMV use many go down suddenly in the coming decade, with highly negative impacts on our lives. The benefits of cycling are known to all, so we need the initiative to make it popular in our cities.
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