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DAMASCUS, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Fed up with the suffocating traffic jams in the Syrian capital Damascus, more people are turning to cycling as a transportation means to avoid being stuck for hours.
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Men and women of different ages took part in the city bicycle rally, the second to have taken place in Damascus since last November.
They started to ride their bikes at 10 a.m. around the Mazzeh highway in western Damascus for an hour.
The mass bike ride was organized by the Yalla Let's Bike Initiative, a non-government group of activist youths, and under the auspices of the Damascus Governorate and cooperation of the traffic police.
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As a result of the four-year-old crisis and state of insecurity, the authorities opted to set up checkpoints in almost all main streets of Damascus, which caused a suffocating traffic jams during rush hours.
The battles around Damascus and elsewhere in the country have also contributed to the daily traffic jams inside the capital as tens of thousands of people fled their homes in different parts of the country and sought safe haven inside Damascus.
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