Bicycle Commuting Guide
At Your Company?
Is a Bicycle Commute Program
Right for
Your Company?
If you can answer "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then
promoting bicycle commuting at your business is probably worth the effort.
Keep in mind
that if an employee bicycle commutes only one day of the work week, they decrease
their automobile use by 20%!
- Does your company support innovative ideas that improve employee health, well being, and morale?
- Is your company situated in a bike-friendly land-use environment?
- Is automobile access to your work site congested?
- Are a prescribed or limited number of parking spaces available for your company?
- Do any of your employees currently bicycle for transportation or recreation?
- Are any of your employees interested in a physically fit, active lifestyle?
- Are there people in your company who are concerned about the environment?
- Do you have employees who live within five miles of work?
Bicycle Friendly Business: Alliant Energy
When Alliant Energy conducted an employee commuter survey, they discovered several major issues which made a bicycle commute program seem like a good match for their company: The cost of parking at its downtown Madison headquarters, and health and environmental concerns voiced by a number of survey respondents. An impressive 43% of survey respondents had already tried bicycling to work, and 52% were interested in participating in the program.
Alliant appointed Janice Poehlman, an avid bicycle commuter, to coordinate their promotional activities. Janice found that informal networking via e-mail announcements and group commute rides was the most effective method for her to promote increased bicycle use.
The benefits regular bicycle commuters at Alliant report include "mental health," weight loss, better leg strength and cardio-vascular fitness, reduced stress and cost savings.
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