well my main prblm is pollution caused by the auto rikshaws

its damn disturbing and its causing mild sickness for me .....

Just FYI. Voting on polls shouldn't require registering on Praja site now. Any site visitor can vote on polls.

Some of us have those excel sheets that traffic police had shared back in 2010 with data on accidents. In there, for fatal, as well as non-fatal accidents, count for "cycles" was very low. single digits for entire year. I don't know what the current numbers are. Will request traffic police to release the data. They only have a boring summarized number stat on accidents on BCP website now.

But, what I was trying to get to was this. Is the fear of "a vehicle may hit me" justified by stats? Can't compare the single digit cycling injury stat with high pedestrian fatalities. That's because the "base" is very high. Lots of people walk on pavements and roads. In fact, one time or other during each day, we are all pedestrians. But, we don't don't really know how many people cycle, so it becomes hard to analyze the single digit cyclist injury stat recorded by bangalore traffic police.

The point remains - is this fear justified. I think (no data yet, that's the point of this comment) not. because in my limited experience with cycling thus far, looks like vehicles do leave some space for you if you are careful enough. it seems a lot safer than trying to cross Varthur road or Sarjapur road, and LOT LOT safer than trying to cross outer ring road.

PS: just becuase there are a lot of pedestrians around, the injury stat shouln't be that high. please see the pedestrian safety PIL for some action regarding this frustration.

Other being , e(lectric)-Bike. Tagging my (daughter's) eBike with a line :

"Bicycle is best, I am next ! "

I was in the group too where there was some fear in heading out with my cycle on to the street especially the arterials..however I figured out that fear is largely unfounded..

As Pranav mentions, drivers are usually aware of cyclists and do  give space to ride around..this is true even with busses. But one thing we as bicycle riders need to be wary of is that we are still a minority out there and certain caution is needed on the streets..especially when we are at inetersections..

Otherwise I just love the freedom cycling gives us..the 'go anywhere' attitude it supports is simply astounding!