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Free $$ to ride!
Get rewarded to commute alternatively Drive Time Des Moines
DART's Bike & Ride
Live too far away? Shorten your commute, take a bus part way. Foul weather? take a bus ride home on the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART)'s bus bike racks
Commuter Discounts
Check out discounts offered to commuters in honor of Bike To Work
Week.
Employer participation?
How many employers are signed up? employees? different cities? Get your coworkers involved!
Participating Bike Shops
Support your Bike Shops - because they support You!- click here to find a participating shop near you!
Why I Love To Commute
Who commutes and why? share your commuting stories and read why others love to commute too!
Why Ride?
Improve your health and fitness and reduce stress too!. Plus, It's Fun!, Join Us and Ride your Bike To Work!
Become a Bike To Work Sponsor
Help make Bike To Work Day a Success! Over 2000 cyclists are expected to register this year for Bike To Work Day in Iowa alone.
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BICYCLE COMMUTING FACTS
- More than half of all Americans live less than five
miles from where they work according to Bicycling magazine.
- Only 1.67% of Americans commute by bicycle.
- In Japan, 15% commute by bicycle
- About 12 bicycles can be parked in the space required
for one automobile.
- Traffic jams in the 29 major cities cost commuters an
estimated $24.3 billion each year.
- There are approximately 139 million automobiles in the
United States.
- The number of bicycles in the U.S. is estimated to be
about 103 million.
- One hundred bicycles can be produced for the same
energy and resources it takes to build one medium-sized automobile.
- The average cost of a new car in the U.S. is $13,532.
- The average cost of a new bicycle in the U.S. is $385.
- The average number of barrels of oil consumed daily in
the United States is 17 million.
- Driving consumes 43% of those barrels of oil. ·
Industrial world cities typically use at least one third of their land for
roads and parking lots for motor vehicles. · Commuting by bicycle produces
zero pollution.
- On average, the commute to work accounts for only one
out of five auto trips taken by drivers each day.
- Trips per day by purpose break down this way:
- Home to work = 1.27 trips per day
- Shopping = .98 trips per day
- Other personal business = 1.17 trips per day
- Social and recreational = .99 trips per
day
- Average miles per trip by purpose
- Home to work = 11.0 miles per trip
- Shopping = 5.1 miles per trip
- Oher personal business = 7.4 miles per trip
- Social and recreational = 11.8 miles per
trip
- For a comparison on true cost savings, consider that
you can drive your car to the grocery store and spend 35 cents for a bar of
soap, adding 7 cents for the gas, or you can ride your bike to the corner
convenience store and pay 41 cents, actually saving a penny and getting some
exercise at the same time.
- The number of bicycle commuters doubled between 1983
and 1990, according to the Bicycle Institute of America
- In China, bicycles outnumber cars 250 to 1.
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