Cycles for techies intra-campus travel

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Athirup’s bicycle club (abc), which already has around 900 users in the city, will soon get new fans - techies. Technopark is launching a new initiative to promote bicycles for intra-campus travel. Techies can make use of the facility by the end of this month.   The programme, conceived by Athirup and the community website www.technoparktoday.com, got the support from Technopark-based Allianz Cornhill, which sponsored over 50 bicycles (men and women in the ratio 4 :1).    Technopark will provide parking space for the bicycles at four locations. All the users will be required to register for use at a token price.  Athirup, the brain behind the initiative, said: “When the cycle club was introduced in the city, I got at least 60 SMSes requesting the setting up of a rack at Technopark.  As a first phase, racks having 10 cycle spaces each will be placed near  major buildings. In the second phase, I am planning to introduce cycle racks at the gate and near the bus stop. Only then can the users fully utilise the service.” Technopark CEO Mervin Alexander said: “With this initiative, we will take one more step to make our campus greener and decongest the park. This will encourage techies to use public transport to reach the gate and then use the bicycles to reach the buildings they want.”