Ola Bike expands to 150 cities across India

Ride-hailing platform has Ola announced the expansion of its Ola Bike service to 150 cities across the country, making it one of the dominant players in the micro-mobility space. However, the company has still not received the go-ahead for its pilot bike taxi service in its home market Bengaluru.

Earlier this year, Ola was piloting its bike taxi services here when the Karnataka Transport Department asked it to stop the services immediately as there is no provision yet to run the service in the State.

Ola Bike was first introduced in 2016 as a last-mile mobility solution in Gurugram, Faridabad and Jaipur. The company said popularity of the service amongst both bike-partners and customers encouraged it to introduce the category in various new markets — from metros such as Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Kolkata to small towns such as Gaya in Bihar, Bikaner in Rajasthan and Mughalsarai in Uttar Pradesh.