ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the predicament of vulnerable road users particularly those who ride bicycles for their day-to-day livelihoods such as door-to-door hawkers, kawadiwala collecting reusable waste items, and individuals employed by food and goods delivery companies in an otherwise car-centric city in Nepal. These livelihood-driven cyclists ride and push their bicycles from dawn to dusk highlighting environmental injustice in the risky roads of the country. The voices of these communities are a far cry from green city movements led by middle and wealthy-class recreational bicycle riders. This chapter examines the injustice these cyclists have faced because inequitable city transportation planning is addressed from the perspective of “environmentalism of the poor’. It explores the intersection of equity, justice, and active transportation in Kathmandu through the voices of these cycling-for-livelihood communities. The chapter then recommends some strategies for these subalterns environmental justice movement.
