Last week, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz remarked that bicycles are for “main-main” suggesting that they are not good solution to the urgent quest for efficient public transportation.

Let me bring an onsite report from Europe and share with Malaysians what reputed and sophisticated cities think of bicycles.

In the days before the Asian middle-class emerged, bicycles serves as the most flexible means for individuals to go point to point.

China was known as the bicycle country, hundreds of millions of bicycles race on the streets of Chinese cities - it wasn’t cool then - an essential transportation vehicle for the majority of people before they embraced the private car.