Wheels Set in Motion for Biking to Work This Week
If everyone made one trip a week on a bicycle, nearly 2 billion gallons of gas would be saved nationally each year, according to Sierra Club executive director.
According to the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety, it is estimated that 41 percent of all work commutes are shorter than 5 miles. Yet, fewer than 1 percent of adult Americans commute to work by bicycle. Commuters are encouraged to ditch their cars and set their bicycle wheels in motion beginning today, Monday, June 11, through Friday, June 15, for Bike to Work Week. “If you can’t bike to work from Elmhurst, residents who work in Chicago can bike to the Metra Station,” says Bob Hoel, chairman of the Elmhurst Bike Task Force and advocacy chairman of the Elmhurst Bike Club. “The Metra Station houses bike racks with 150 parking spaces." An additional 10 spaces in bike lockers are rented out for $100 a year, he said. They provide a …
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David
9:21 pm on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
I now this article is old, but addison just did the same thing that Elmhurst did with Mike Kopp - let him retire, get his pension, and give him a newly create 6 figure job (with a new pension). Their police chief Timothy Hayden retired (drawing his pension) and got a job as the director of police. Read about it at: http://www.illinoisisbroke.com/news and http://www.dailyherald.com/article/… more ›