Konya Metropolitan Municipality has increased the number of bicycle repair stations to 595 in Konya, which has the longest bicycle path network in Turkey with 40 kilometers and the city with the highest number of bicycle users. Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay said, “Our repair stations consist of repair kits and an air pump. At these stations, there are tools that can be used to repair the vehicles of our disabled citizens. In addition, we have placed various ready-to-use tools for bicycle repair in the Bicycle Tram, which is an example for Turkey.
Repair stations established by Konya Metropolitan Municipality for the repair of bicycles provide great convenience to bicycle users.
Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay stated that they carry out many studies to encourage the use of bicycles in Konya, which has the longest bicycle path network of Turkey with 595 kilometers and the city with the highest number of bicycle users, and stated that bicycle repair stations installed in various places are one of them. expressed.
Stating that they are maintaining the existing bicycle repair stations in the city center and adding new ones, the number of repair stations has increased to 40, Mayor Altay said, “Our repair stations consist of repair kits and air pumps that allow bicycle users to intervene in the malfunctions that may occur in their bicycles while driving. In addition, at these stations; There are also tools to repair the cars and strollers of our disabled citizens," he said.
BICYCLE MAINTENANCE CAN BE DONE DURING TRAVEL ON TRAM
Noting that the points where bicycle repair stations are installed were determined by utilizing the Bicycle Master Plan data they implemented for the first time in Turkey with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Mayor Altay said: . Thus, our citizens using the Bicycle Tram have the opportunity to maintain their bicycles during their travels.
Bicycle users can see the locations of bicycle repair stations on the Smart Bicycle Transportation System (ABUS) within the Konya Smart Transportation Assistant mobile application.