Letter to BS: Utility will gradually replace technology in urban mobility

Infrastructure modification may be difficult and costly but not impossible

This refers to your article “Cycling to the ultimate mobility solution” (January 1). The wheel is obviously turning full circle. Technological advancement has indeed made man overlook environmental benefits. Excessive petrol and diesel fumes is increasing atmospheric pollution. Cars were invented to save on time. 

However, with excessive modernisation people have come to associate cars and fuel-driven two-wheelers as status symbols rather than utility vehicles. The increased production of such vehicles has clogged roads and today travelling time has increased rather than decreased. Humility pays in the final analysis and the utility value of the cycle is being felt all the