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May 2008
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September is Bike Commute Challenge month, organized by the Bicycle Transportation Alliance to encourage bike commuting. The event offers the chance for friendly competition, workplace against workplace, to see who can get more people biking to work in September. Any public or private business is eligible, and individual cyclists can also participate on their own. Here at KGW, we are putting the pedal to the metal, two-wheeled style. We're going to see how many co-workers we can get to make at least one trip to work by bike. And we invite you and your company to take us on in the Bike Commute Challenge! In the coming days, our KGW bike commuters will post entries here in the GOING GREEN blog describing their experiences bike commuting. Feel free to add your own comments and bike-commuting stories. You can register your company for the Bike Commute Challenge on the BTA web site. Then, employees bike to work during September and log their trips online.
The BTA web site keeps track of workplaces in each of five size categories, with the highest percentage of bike trips compared to overall possible employee trips announced at an After Party on Thursday, October 4th. There will also be two raffles for prizes. Everyone who rides two days by September 14th will be entered in a raffle and anyone who rides five days by September 21st will be entered into a raffle. Individual cyclists who make seven or more trips by bike in September can also get a discount on gear at their local bike shop from September 15 - October 15, 2007 by taking in their tally card. 1 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Hi, my moniker in the messenger community is "jolly dodger", and I live the Al Gore lifestyle and have since 1990. I first read about global climate change in 1989 in OMNI magazine. Right now I deliver The Oregonian by bicycle seven days a week. 3.30 am till 5.30 am mon-sat, 7.00am on sun. My route is Ladds Addition, 240 papers a day. My sig. other and i own seven bikes between us. No car, she buses to swan island daily for work. I have a custom grocery cart trailer i use for sundays and heavy daily loads. All daily life chores by bike, laundry, groceries.... The cart and my story could inspire others; only one other bike carrier for the oregonian that i know of. Every other carrier at my station uses a car. They all pay for their own gas and I sometimes feel their passive aggresive and often veiled hostility at my ability to do the same job without spending %25 of my earnings on A vehicle. 60 hours of work a month. I earn $1100-1400 (depending on tips) a month. Zero emmisions on my end of the delivery chain. Call the Oregonians bluff and get them to initiate a flexcar team up or something?!?!