Conceived and prioritised under Puducherry smart city development plan, a bicycle sharing scheme, is to be introduced in Puducherry in a couple of months.<br />'' <br />'' The registered users or customers can use bicycles to hop from one place to another within the boulevard area. The bicycles can be left at any of the docking stations after use.<br />'' <br />'' For the scheme, 100 spots have been identified for cycle docking stations. To begin with, 20 docking stations with 10 to 15 cycles each, are to be set up in places like beach promenade, Bharathi Park, Gandhi Thidal, Aurobindo ashram and railway station.<br />'' <br />'' Boovaragan, a resident of Puducherry said that this is a welcome step taken by the government under the smart city plan. He said this is a novel scheme suitable to Puducherry, where, in Boulevard area bus services cannot be run because of narrow streets.<br />'' <br />'' Moreover, it is a boon to tourists who throng to Puducherry in thousands whose number swells to several thousand on weekends.<br />'' <br />'' Puducherry is overcrowded now-a-days. The total population of the UT is over 11 lakhs and the total number of vehicle on road comes around 9 lakhs.<br />'' <br />'' You can imagine the traffic problems and pollution also. If this plan is executed well, puducherians will be highly relieved of the traffic congestion, pollution problems and the tourists as well, also enjoyed their trip.<br />'' <br />'' The project under the public-private partnership model will be operationalised after a suitable operator is found out through tender.<br />'' <br />'' This scheme is one among the 22 prioritised schemes of the Puducherry Smart City Project for which about 194 crore rupees would be spent.<br />