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» more »This program will help guide businesses that want to promote cycling within their organization and help the cyclists who want to commute by bike.
» more »The Bike Commuter Education Program has been in several businesses helping them promote cycling and helping employees cycle better. “It has been a well received idea, I think, because businesses realize the power of wellness and the minimal effort it takes to support cycling and the great moral return.” said Erik West of GO MAINE.
“We realized that in order to promote commuting by bike, in some cases we needed to help folks get on the bike in the first place, so we are starting at the beginning and helping folks get a healthy start in cycling, then boosting them up too commuting by bike.” said Jim Tasse, Education Director at the Bicycle Coalition of Maine (BCM). The BCM is co-delivering this program with GO MAINE.
The Program works on two key areas: bike culture in the workplace and riding education for the employees. We help the HR departments in their goals of supporting staff wellness efforts by including cycling. Usually this means we meet with them and look at their site to discuss appropriate policies, bike parking, or shower/locker facilities that could work. We also help them get the word out to staff about what presentations we can offer. Then we return to deliver one or more presentations to interested staff on riding, laws, safety, how to look good when they get to work and anything in between. Presentations are fun and too the point.
If you would like the FREE Bicycle Commuter Education program to come to your workplace, please contact ewest@gpcog.org to learn more or set up an appointment.
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