http://b2ww.org is open for registration. Bike 2 Work Week was new in 2008. This year is bigger and better, with events throughout the entire month of May. The Commuter Challenge is expanded to 2 weeks this year, from May 4th – 15th.
Signing up is easy. Just log in and create a team for your business, organization, or school.
Why bike to work? If you make just one trip to work by bicycle during May, you are likely to understand and embrace the benefits of bicycling for transportation. Cycling has a positive impact on your health, the environment, your bottom line, and your sense of well-being. Just do it!
There’s a good discussion on urban transportation on CSPN2 (Sunday at 1:00) to be repeated at 1:00 AM if you want to record it to watch tomorrow. “Fighting Traffic” by Dr. Peter Norton, U of Virginia, and Debora Gordon (with Daniel Sperling) book titled “Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability” are featured at the Virginia Festival of the Book. Norton’s work is available at http://etext.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH38/Norton.htlm and tells the story of how cars took over streets from pedestrians by deflecting anti-car sentiment (resulting from an unprecedented 200,000 pedestrian fatalities half of which were children in the 1920′s) into a ‘public safety campaign’ introducing the criminalizing of jaywalking rather than effective speed limits or limited access for cars. Gordan and Sperling’s World Affairs Council Discussion is available at http://fora.tv/2009/01/06/2_billion_ cars_An_American_Love_Affair.