Bike and Co-op
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Once again, I’m supporting BikeWeek. I generally use a bike as the first leg of my work journeys, although my company doesn’t have a “Green Travel Plan” yet. It’s mainly the time taken writing such things which has stopped it. I think we’re in favour of such ideas. Has anyone got a plan we can just adopt?
There are events all over the country. Sadly, yet again, I can’t take advantage of the local offer of free entry to Tyntesfield if you turn up on a bike because I’ll be off to the Co-operative Group regional AGM.
Two ideas which I’m seeing in lots of areas are Commuter Challenges like JamBustingJune (which TTLLP is signed up to) and lots of bike shops supporting the event, such as Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Manchester and Leeds.
What are you doing for Bike Week? Watching some races on TV? Taking part in local events?
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1 mjray's status on Saturday, 13-Jun-09 07:28:52 UTC - Identi.ca // Jun 13, 2009 at 7:28 am
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2 nixternal // Jun 14, 2009 at 4:05 pm
I am part of a group called “Active Transportation Alliance” here in Chicago and one of the things we do is actually consult with businesses and helping them become a bike friendly place. It is actually very inexpensive for a company to become bike friendly these days, and most major cities I know in the US have some sort of bike initiative. Also the government offers grants for businesses who want to become green. My last company utilised some federal grant money and built a really nice bike rack in the office, setup trainers so we could hook up our bikes and pedal for 5 or 10 minutes to relieve some stress. Here is a LINK from Active Trans that talks a little about this.
Another thing our building did was put up bicycle friendly signs and let people know to bring their bikes on in. The building was a high tech location with a lot of the corporate snobby types, which believe it or not, actually rode their bikes to work, in a suit