Hyderabad Metro Rail will also bring Bicycle Stations to the city for the first time to provide first and last mile connectivity to Metro passengers. Hyderabad Bicycling Club (HBC), Hyderabad Metro Rail (HMR) and UN-Habitat entered into a tripartite MoU for setting up about 300 bike stations.
Out of these 300 bike stations, 63 bike stations will be at Metro stations, while the rest will be the ‘feeder stations’ spread all over Hyderabad. The project will cost 100 crore, which includes hardware and software. These stations will have two types of bikes – regular (pedal-driven) ones costing Rs 50,000 and e-bike costing Rs 1 lakh.
Once the DPR is ready, the first bike station will operational by September end at JNTU here. Bicycles will be provided on the first-come-first-serve basis and will be provided only to HBC members. They say it will be the largest ‘Public Bike Sharing’ (PBS) system of its kind in the world. Out of the total of 66 Metro stations, 63 stations will have bicycle stations with smart card operation and one can seamlessly travel from house to metro station to office and back.
