May 2008
Help your employees commute with pedal power
If you are looking for a way to encourage bicycle commuting at your company, there’s a new program that can help. Your employees can get a workout on the way to work with Bike2Benefits.
Here’s how it works. Beginning in May, participants can sign up at bike2benefits.org, where they can track their trips and mileage. The program requires that a commuter bicycle to work or to a transit stop once a week over eight weeks before Dec. 31 – it’s that easy. Through June 30, participation in this program also can count toward the Commuter Challenge.
Those who join Bike2Benefits will receive a personalized route map (if they request one), a booklet with tips on bicycle commuting, information on safe and lawful bicycling and a reflective ankle strap.
Once participants complete the program, they are entered in a year-end prize drawing.
The program is open to anyone 18 or older who lives or works in the following counties: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott or Washington.
What if a colleague lives far from work? Can he or she still participate?
There are several ways to complete a trip. All Metro Transit buses and trains, along with most of the region’s transit providers, have on-board storage racks, so a commuter can bicycle for part of the way to work and take transit for the rest.
In addition, bicycle lockers are available at many Park & Ride lots, light-rail stations and other Twin Cities locations.
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