Road Safey tips for bicyclists and cycle-rickshaw-wala’s

Do’s

• Use hand signals before turning right or left.

• Stop and look before turning

• Wear bright coloured clothes and reflective jacket, especially when natural light is low.

• Install front, rear and wheel reflectors on your bicycle/cycle-rickshaw.

• Use the bell while riding in fog or in the dark to warn other people of your presence.

• Cross red-lights and railway level crossings on foot.

• Follow traffic rules. Move only when light turns green/ barriers at railway level crossing are open.

Don’ts

• Don’t ride within 2 metres of the rear of a motor vehicle.

• Don’t hold onto moving vehicles.

• Don’t carry things in your hands while cycling.

• Don’t jump red lights.

• Don’t cross when the barriers of a railway level crossing are closed.