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Lead Ride For Community

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NNCF initiates the conversation with the community leadership and the key stakeholders to make the community as a Lead Ride Community. A Lead Ride Community performs the following key roles.

  1. Agrees to organize the Lead Ride on World Cycle Day
  2. Connects and Convenes the Active Mobility Enabling Leaders and Players
  3. Commits funding for the Lead Ride
  4. The outreach and branding campaign is supported
  5. Appoints Lead Ride Buddies in the community to lead the effort of Active Mobility & Active Travel Transformation.

Intro

Lead Ride Community - is a unique, participatory model of cycling which offers the potential to create real and lasting benefits for a wide spectrum of stakeholders, both inside and outside the community.

Philosophy

Amidst the social changes brought on by globalization, local communities cannot live in isolation. Community Cycling is one way to bring people of different backgrounds together. Ideally, Community Cycling seems to offer hosts and visitors a unique opportunity to share their different cultures and points-of-view. People are able to share first-hand experiences together and to develop personal relationships which can grow into powerful alliance contributing towards the community wellness and sustainable environment and development.

Criteria for Community to be part of Lead Ride

  • Community potential
    • Community ownership and responsibility for the effort.
  • Market potential of Community Cycling & Marketing
  • Role of local government in supporting Community Cycling
  • Project personnel and funding
  • Community Skills and Capacity Building
  • Community co-operatives for revenue generation and revenue sharing

Significance of Community Cycling

Legislation and Policy Integration

Potential Locations for Communities

Design of Services for Active Travel

NNCF will work with the communities in designing the following services for Active Travel.

Experience Planning and Design

Retail Experience to enable local market & local community

Checklist

Information and way finding

  • Ensure that the wayfinding design and signage in general provides three major functions: • orientation and direction (connectivity between present location and desired location) • identification of locations • relevant information for further decision making
  • Budget to be incorporated for designing and installing signages
  • Arrival point or address of the facility or building
  • Assistive wheelchairs/ info for physically challenged
  • Main entry from highway
  • Maps, logos, pictograms Community's image symbols and artwork
  • Restrooms and toilet facilities
  • Safety, regulatory, prohibition and advisory signs

Infrastructure incentives for community tourism

Bicycle Skill Village

Infrastructure Needs for Active Travel by the Community

NNCF will work with the communities in designing the following services for Active Travel.

Camping

Safety and security

Accomodation

Food and restaurant

Parking

Toilet /Rest room

Reading room /library

Museum/visitor information center

Zoning inside the Village

Community spaces

Wellness zones - Yoga & Meditation