Bicycles set to save Stone Town from traffic pollution

Cyclists

Cyclists from across East Africa Community: The govt of Zanzibar is promoting the use of bicycles to save the Unesco Heritage Site. PHOTO |  FILE


Zanzibar has launched a bicycle riding campaign to stop environmental degradation in Stone Town, a designated World Heritage site, caused by motorised fossil-fuel traffic.

The campaign was symbolically led by the archipelago’s second Vice President Hemed Suleiman Abdulla and state officials who rode bicycles through the town’s narrow streets of the Unesco-protected town and was joined by the public and hospitality workers and owners who benefit from tourism.