New Delhi, June 26 -- Every morning, Indira D unlocks a bright green bicycle from her residence in Rabindranath Tagore Nagar in Mysuru, Karnataka and travels around 5 kilometres to Manasagangotri campus of the University of Mysore, where she is a postgraduate student.

Around a year ago, this daily commute was a routine of waiting for buses or hailing autos, an exercise never quite predictable for her. But in 2024, she made a simple switch. "I decided to try the public bicycle sharing (PBS) system," she said. "For the first few weeks, I renewed my membership daily and then I got a monthly pass."

Trin Trin, Mysuru's public bicycle sharing system, was launched in 2017 to provide an alternative and green mode of transportation for city com...