Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. Memduh Büyükkılıç celebrated the 3 June World Bicycle Day and said that as the Metropolitan Municipality, they are working to promote the use of bicycles, which is a healthy and environmentally friendly means of transportation, with an 80-kilometer bicycle path throughout the city.
Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, which provides services to the people of Kayseri, from seven to seventy, all over the city, continues its projects to popularize the use of bicycles.
“HEALTHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORTATION” EMPHASIS FROM BÜYÜKKILIÇ
While the World Bicycle Day is celebrated on June 3, the Kayseri Bicycle Sharing System (KAYBIS), which is the most advanced model of bicycle transportation, which is a healthy and environmentally friendly means of transportation, is used with admiration by the citizens. Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Dr. The number of bicycle lanes throughout the city is also being increased in order to expand the use of bicycles and make them more comfortable, which Memduh Büyükkılıç attaches special importance to.
In his statement on the subject, Mayor Büyükkılıç underlined that 80 kilometers of bicycle paths were built throughout the city, and that they would also invest in a new 10-kilometer bicycle path.
4 KILOMETER CYCLING ROAD IN THE LAST 35,6 YEARS
Stating that 4 kilometers of bicycle paths have been built in the last 35,6 years and that the roads of Kayseri are on a flat geography, Büyükkılıç said, “We set out to ensure that there should be bicycle paths right next to our roads in a flat city, and we show the necessary sensitivity in this regard and carry out the necessary studies. There are 80 kilometers of bicycle paths in Kayseri, and we will increase the length of bicycle paths to 10 kilometers with a new 90-kilometer bicycle path.”
Mayor Büyükkılıç stated that they always pay attention to the presence of bicycle lanes on the newly opened roads, and also special bicycles for children in Erciyes, which was built for the first time in Turkey on Erciyes Mountain and where there are tracks of different difficulty levels for all mountain bike users such as downhill and mtb. and reminded that they created an activity park.
INVITATION FROM BÜYÜKKILIÇ TO A BICYCLE TOUR
President Büyükkılıç, who also celebrated the 3 June World Bicycle Day, which was announced to encourage the use of bicycles, an environmentally friendly and healthy transportation vehicle, said, “Also, on Sunday, the leading organization of the Metropolitan Municipality in sports activities, Spor A.Ş. World Cycling Day and World Environment Day themed bike tour will take place. I invite all our fellow citizens to this special event.”
Büyükkılıç emphasized that KAYBIS, Turkey's first bike sharing system, contributes to a healthy life by promoting the use of bicycles while carrying out the development of the bike sharing system.
Mayor Büyükkılıç stated that the environmentally friendly, economical and healthy transportation vehicle KAYBİS, which is the award-winning bicycle service of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, serves the people of Kayseri with a total of 24 stations, 81 of which are new, and 1000 bicycles.