World Bicycle Day 2022: Themes, significance and countries who promote cycling
Theme
The theme for the year 2022 for World Bicycle Day is to celebrate the bicycle’s originality, diversity and endurance being utilised for more than 200 years.
Before the advent of Covid, people used to gather together for parades and races to celebrate.
Thousands of people all around the world use bicycles as their primary source of transportation.
Significance
The reason why June 4 is marked as World Bicycle Day is to raise awareness of the bicycle’s benefits, its variety, its originality and how it’s a sustainable method of transportation.
It helps to save the environment for future generations in times of heavy pollution.
Environmentally-friendly form of transportation
Cycling is one of the most environmentally-friendly forms of transportation. It surpasses many environmental benefits as much as you can think of.
Cycling reduces air pollution, and noise pollution, protects green spaces, reduces the need for deforestation to construct roads and industrial sites people cut trees and plays a major role in reduceing global warming.
Bicycle friendly countries around the world
Some countries encourage cycling as the main transportation. These are Denmark, Norway, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, France and New Zealand.
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