Asia's first and longest cycle highway runs between ____________.

Concept

A 'cycle highway' is a dedicated, segregated track built exclusively for bicycles, kept separate from motorised road traffic so that cyclists can travel long distances safely. To identify a record-holder such as 'Asia's first and longest', the test is which dedicated cycling corridor was the earliest of its kind on the continent and which has the greatest length.

Application

Uttar Pradesh built a fully segregated 207-km bicycle track linking Agra with Etawah. On its inauguration it was widely reported and recognised as Asia's first and longest dedicated cycle highway. Both end-points lie within Uttar Pradesh, so the corridor runs between Etawah and Agra in Uttar Pradesh.

Contrast

The other city pairs are well-known transport or twin-city routes, but none of them is a record-setting dedicated cycle highway:

• Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra are linked by the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, a motor-vehicle expressway, not a cycle track.

• Bengaluru and Mysuru in Karnataka are connected by a road/expressway corridor meant for motor traffic.

• Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Telangana are twin cities joined by ordinary city roads, not a long-distance cycling corridor.

Hence the 207-km Etawah-Agra track in Uttar Pradesh is the correct answer.