{"id":40290,"date":"2019-01-12T16:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40290"},"modified":"2019-01-12T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:31:46","slug":"cycling-could-help-economy-avoid-premature-death-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cycling-could-help-economy-avoid-premature-death-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling could help economy, avoid premature death: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/cycling-could-help-economy-avoid-premature-death-study\/article25972413.ece\">Cycling could help economy, avoid premature death: Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Cycling for short distance trips can yield an annual benefit of \u20b91.8 trillion to the economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to analysis conducted by The Energy Resources Institute (Teri), cycling regularly for an average distance of 3.5 km for just 120 days can help avoid 4,756 premature deaths.<\/li>\n<li>More than half of India uses \u201cnon-motorised\u201d forms of transport, such as walking and cycling, to travel to work, followed by two-wheelers (18%) and buses (16%)<\/li>\n<li>Cycle sales have risen only 1% in a decade as opposed to a 9% rise in cars and two wheelers but still cyclists in cities constitute nearly 40% of those who travel more than 21 km for work the same as those who commute a similar distance by car.<\/li>\n<li>Substituting just half the short distance work trips, which are undertaken by two-wheelers and cars, with cycles, could result in massive savings about \u20b927 billion from fuel expenditure and 0.35 Million Tonnes of Oil Equivalent (MTOE) in terms of energy,<\/li>\n<li>At present, the cheapest bicycle available in India costs around \u20b92,500-\u20b95,000, which accounts for 15% of the annual per capita income in rural areas. In comparison, the cheapest bicycle in China accounts for only 2.5% of the annual per capita income in rural areas<\/li>\n<li>Lack of dedicated cycling lanes, as well as poorly maintained roads, in several cities, cycling is fraught with danger in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Suggestions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government should reduce Goods and Services Tax (GST) on cycles that cost less than \u20b95,000.<\/li>\n<li>Promote manufacturing of bicycles because it absorbs unskilled labour, and discourage personal motorised vehicles through congestion charges, increased cost of parking, and a pollution tax.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling could help economy, avoid premature death: Study News: Cycling for short distance trips can yield an annual benefit of \u20b91.8 trillion to the economy Important Facts: According to analysis conducted by The Energy Resources Institute (Teri), cycling regularly for an average distance of 3.5 km for just 120 days can help avoid 4,756 premature&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cycling-could-help-economy-avoid-premature-death-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cycling could help economy, avoid premature death: Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704903500},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}