Banning Cycling!

I have heard of Trucks being banned in residensial areas, cars probihited in high-foot traffic areas and similar cases of restictions imposed for the benefit of the society. Now sharjah decided to ban cyclists from roads of sharjah. Not that bikers are running towards sharjah to bike for a few hours of the day. More important are the reasons of banning.

The Municipality is apparently trying to clamp down on “uncivilised” people who transport scrap, especially cardboard, on the back of bikes.

Would it be not more benifical to implement good wastage collection system? Banning the cheapest available mode of transportation is not the solution! Considering that most of the public transportation in UAE is stuck in dark ages and markets the future as 22nd century city; the government must realise the future of public transportation is in the direction taken by cities such as San Francisco which has the one of the longest biker routes of the world and not in cities like LA, known worldover for its traffic jams and highways.