Cycling To The Office, City Government Dare Pay Rp 8,8 Million

Kamis, 19 November 2015 - 15:30 WIB
Cycling To The Office,...
Cycling To The Office, City Government Dare Pay Rp 8,8 Million
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ITALY - If only this policy also applied in Indonesia. Indonesian government may no longer need to bother with the affairs of transport and congestion.

One of the city government in Italy make a breakthrough policy, once willing to pay hundreds of euros per year to its people. Requirement them every day using a bicycle to work instead of car drive.

Council representatives in Massarosa, north of Pisa say the pilot scheme is to give incentives bike users pay 25 cents per kilometer. Monthly, they can get up to 50 euros, or about 736 thousand rupiah.

"Therefore each user are turning to two-wheeled vehicles will be pocketed 600 euros ($ 8.8 million) annually, and this is the first instance applied in Italy," he said, as quoted by the BBC, recently.

A total of 50 workers will participate in the first 12 months probation. They use the smart phone as a data recording how much pedaling per day.

Budget for this cycling incentive citizens from violation fines collected in the streets and local government health budgets. Federation Group of Cyclists Italy (FIAB) will help mengembangka this idea. Bike enthusiast hoped that this will be applied in other cities.

This method was first introduced in France in 2014, with the results of a six month trial period. Thanks to the incentives they are willing to pay for cycling, is known to have increased the number of users of two-wheeled vehicles pedal itself.
(rnz)
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