The United Nations General Assembly determined to declare June 3 of every yr as World Bicycle Day, recognizing the significance of the bicycle as a easy, economical, sustainable and dependable type of transportation, in addition to its many well being and environmental advantages. The choice emphasised the position of bicycles in enhancing public well being, defending the surroundings, and offering inexpensive and environment friendly transportation for residents world wide.
In Morocco, sports activities and biking have grow to be an necessary a part of the day by day lifetime of residents, regardless of the good challenges dealing with the “little princess.”
In a press launch, the President of the Royal Moroccan Cycling Federation, Mohamed Belmahi, confirmed that many Moroccan cities, corresponding to Marrakesh, Rachidia, Rabat, Meknes, Taroudant, Tetouan, Sidi Slimane, Larache, Ksar El-Kebir…, think about biking as an necessary in on a regular basis life.
Belmahi added that commemorating the World Bicycle Day is a chance to strengthen confidence within the energy of this methodology, noting that that is in keeping with the primary tips of the event mannequin that goals to make sports activities an necessary foundation for the event of Morocco.
The President of the Royal Moroccan Cycling Federation defined that biking and racing have many dimensions, together with defending the surroundings, lowering transportation prices, creating jobs, and enhancing bodily and psychological well being.
Belmahi identified that the targets associated to utilizing the bicycle as a clear mode of transport weren’t absolutely achieved as a result of lack of particular routes and the chance of accidents. He defined that solely 2% of Moroccans’ day by day journeys are made by bicycle, though two-thirds of journeys don’t exceed three kilometers from a distance.
Belmahi known as on the related authorities to strengthen efforts to deal with these challenges, and to triple the speed of utilizing bicycles by 2025, given their environmental, financial and well being advantages.
The Royal Moroccan Cycling Federation depends on the help of elected officers, nationwide teams and corporations to attain this aim and promote the usage of bicycles as a protected and clear type of transportation. Belmahi identified that the college, underneath the management of the International Cycling Union, organizes many occasions in the course of the World Bicycle Day, together with regional races, membership journeys, consciousness actions, and conferences with highschool college students to extend the extent of this sport and unfold consciousness of the significance of bicycles.
The president of the college added that many bulletins and actions might be displayed on the college’s social media, together with statistics and video clips that spotlight the passenger expertise and the brand new methods to come back within the discipline.
Belmahi pressured that World Bicycle Day represents a possibility to advertise biking and spotlight the contribution of biking to on a regular basis life, not solely as a sustainable technique of transport however as a wholesome interest and aggressive sport. He identified a current examine sponsored by the International Cycling Union, which exhibits that switching from utilizing vehicles to bicycles can save infrastructure of roughly $25 trillion in 2050, which reinforces the significance of selling this pattern world wide.