EMPLOYERS: Bicycles Mean Business!

Encouraging both your employees and co-workers to ride to work has obvious advantages:

• Biking is great exercise, and physical fitness means good health, fewer sick days and higher productivity.
• Bicycle-friendly companies earn themselves an environment-friendly image. Bicycling is a virtually zero-emission form of transportation, and transportation is increasingly being targeted for emissions reductions to help Massachusetts comply with the federal Clean Air Act.
• Bicycling reduces parking and transportation hassles and costs, leaving bicyclists with more disposable income.
• Bicyclists have time to notice and visit the shops they ride past.
• The cost of one auto parking space is at least ten times the cost of a secure bike locker, and at least twenty times the cost of secure bike racks.
• Bicycles are space-efficient: 12 bikes fit into one car parking space.