Which city’s decades-old Sunday street-opening tradition, cited at the COP31 session, draws about 1.6 million people onto 125 kilometres of car-free streets?
- A.Addis Ababa
- B.Amsterdam
- C.Bogota
- D.Copenhagen
Correct answer
Explanation
The correct answer is Bogota, in Colombia. Jim Walker of the Walk21 Foundation told the session that a similar opening of streets began in that city roughly fifty years ago and that it now brings about 1.6 million people out every Sunday onto 125 kilometres of roads closed to cars. Option A, Addis Ababa, is wrong because the Ethiopian capital was raised for a different reason: car-free days there helped the country frame its first non-motorised transport strategy, with targets for walkways and cycle tracks, and no figure of that size was attached to it. Options B and D, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, are wrong because neither city is named at all in the account of the session, however strong their cycling reputations may be. Remember the pairing of Bogota with 1.6 million riders and 125 kilometres of car-free streets, and of Addis Ababa with Ethiopia’s first non-motorised transport strategy.
Read the full article: Fit India Presents Sundays on Cycle at COP31 in Antalya
Practice Questions
At which city’s climate summit did the Fit India Movement present its Sundays on Cycle initiative?
- A.Baku
- B.Belem
- C.Antalya
- D.Dubai
Show answer
The session on Sundays on Cycle was held at the International Solar Alliance Pavilion at COP31, the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and that summit is taking place at Antalya.
Read the full explanation →Since which date has the Fit India Sundays on Cycle ride been held every Sunday without a break?
- A.2 October 2024
- B.22 December 2024
- C.1 January 2025
- D.15 August 2025
Show answer
The free community ride started on that date and, as officials told the climate summit, it has not lost a single Sunday since.
Read the full explanation →Which ministry organises Fit India Sundays on Cycle through the Sports Authority of India?
- A.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- B.Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
- C.Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- D.Ministry of Education
Show answer
The ride is organised by the Sports Authority of India, which works under that ministry, and the session at the climate summit was presented by the ministry’s own Fit India Movement.
Read the full explanation →In the road dust review, how much of the targeted road length in NCR had been redeveloped?
- A.3,221 km of 5,480 km
- B.5,480 km of 6,747 km
- C.2,298 km of 3,221 km
- D.2,345 km of 5,480 km
Show answer
Road-owning agencies were told to give priority to repairing potholes, damaged footpaths and central verges and to pave roads end to end as the CAQM framework requires, backed by surveys using artificial intelligence.
Read the full explanation →PAVAN, which brings air quality, emission, weather, satellite and compliance data onto one platform, belongs to which body?
- A.India Meteorological Department
- B.Commission for Air Quality Management
- C.National Green Tribunal
- D.Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Show answer
PAVAN stands for the Platform for Air Quality Vigilance and Analytics for NCR, and it is CAQM’s own platform, built so that air quality readings, emission data, meteorological information, satellite inputs and compliance records can be seen together instead of in separate silos.
Read the full explanation →