The Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) Sunday started allowing passengers to bring their “folding” bikes onboard trains.

Amid cheers, bikers of the University of the Philippines (UP) Firefly Brigade, UP Mountaineers, Padyak Project Foundation, and the Tiklop Society including LRTA Administrator Melquiades Robles and Senator Pia Cayetano boarded an LRTA Line 2 (Santolan,Pasig-Recto,Manila) train at the Cubao, Quezon City station with their “folding” bikes, got off Legarda station then biked off to Luneta in Manila.

“This is a dream come true,” the group shouted while onboard the train hopeful that the Bike On, Bike Off (BIKE-02) would encourage more car owners to ditch their motor vehicles for bicycles to move around the metropolis.

Amid devastation wrought by recent natural calamities attributed to climate change, the group said that the project is a big step towards a “radical but a must needed change.”

One parking slot for a car can accommodate up to 12 bicycles, noted Jojo Gutierrez, President of the Padyak Society, an offshoot organization of the University of the Philippines’ Firefly Brigade a non governmental organization advocating the use of bicycle “as a sustainable form of transportation that is cheap and environment-friendly.”