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Footloose and Car Free! How Biking Can Improve Your Health and the Environment

FOOTLOOSE AND CAR FREE! GO THE EXTRA 5 MILES ...... ............. 50% OF AMERICANS LIVE WITHIN 5 MILES OF THEIR WORKPLACE. IF THEY BIKE 5 MILES EVERY DAY RATHER THAN DRIVE... THEY COULD REDUCE TOTAL 6% HOUSEHOLD EMISSIONS BY U.S. HOUSEHOLDS SPEND $7,179 PER YEAR ON OWNING AND DRIVING CARS. ON A ROUND-TRIP COMMUTE OF 10 MILES, BICYCLISTS SAVE $10 DAILY. TRAFFIC CONGESTION WASTES 3.9 BILLION GALLONS OF GAS PER YEAR IN THE U.S FOR EVERY MILE PEDALED RATHER THAN DRIVEN, NEARLY 1 POUND OF CO (0.88 LB) IS AVOIDED. RESEARCH SHOWS IF COMMUTERS SWITCH FROMA CAR TO A BIKE FOR 50% OF TRIPS LESS THAN 5 MILES LONG IN 11 METROPOLITAN AREAS IN THE UPPER MIDWEST... 1. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 2. CINCINNATI, OHIO 3. CLEVELAND, OHIO 4. COLUMBUS, OHIO 5. DAYTON, OHIO 6. DETROIT, MICHIGAN 7. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 8. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 9. MADISON, WISCONSIN 10. MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 11. MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA ... AND COMBINING DATA ON: AIR POLLUTION MEDICAL COSTS MORTALITY RATES CAR ACCIDENTS PHYSICAL FITNESS THIS WOULD GENERATE $3.8 BILLION IN SAVINGS FROM SMALLER HEALTH CARE COSTS DUE TO $3.5 BILLION ANNUAL NET SOCIETAL HEALTH BENEFIT FROM BETTER FITNESS AND FEWER THE INCREASE IN AIR MORTALITIES FROM CAR QUALITY ACCIDENTS PUT YOUR BEST PEDAL FORWARD 3 HOURS OF BIKING PER WEEK REDUCES RISK OF HEART DISEASE AND STROKE BY 50% 30+ MINUTES OF BIKING PER DAY LOWERS WOMEN'S RISK OF BREAST CANCER ADOLESCENTS WHO BIKE ARE 48% LESS LIKELY TO BE OVERWEIGHT AS ADULTS A STUDY FROM THE INSTITUTE FOR EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCES, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, WAS CONDUCTED OVER 14.5 YEARS. 13,375 WOMEN-AGES 20-93 THEY WERE EVALUATED ON: 7,265 MEN-AGES 20-93 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BLOOD PRESSURE TOTAL CHOLESTEROL TRIGLYCERIDE LEVELS - ABOUT 1,000 WOMEN BODY MASS INDEX SMOKING EDUCATIONAL LEVEL THOSE WHO BIKED LOWERED 0% THEIR RISK OF DEATH BY SAVED BY THE BIKE LANE ........ ***..... MORE CYCLISTS, MORE BIKE LANES, FEWER INJURIES 2,000 20,000 1.800 18,000 16,000 14,000 1,200 12,000 1,000 10,000 800 8,000 600 400 200 2,000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 CYCLISTS BIKE LANES INJURIES THE FIRST BICYCLE-PROTECTED STREETS IN THE U.S.: 8TH AND 9TH AVENUES, MANHATTAN, NEW YORK FEWER INJURIES 35% ALONO STH AVE FEWER INJURIES 58% ALONG 9TH AVE MIXING ZONE FOR LEFT-TURNING BIKES & VEHICLES PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ISLANDS PARKING PROTECTED 49% INCREASE IN RETAIL SALES BIKE LANE LOCALLY BASED BUSINESSES ON 9TH AVE (FROM 23RD TO 31ST STREETS. COMPARED TO 3% BOROUGH-WIDE BIKING EVERY DAY WILL HAVE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON YOUR HEALTH & SAFETY AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENT. BIKESBELONG.ORG BIKETOWORKINFO.ORG CLOUDFRONT.NET/AMERICABIKES ENVIRONMENT.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM NCBI.NLM.NIH.Gov TREEHUUGGER.COM BROUGHT TO YOU BY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Quicken Loans Engineered to Amaze GHERGICH&Co. Quickenloans.com COMMUTER CYCLIST COUNTS in Aclete

Footloose and Car Free! How Biking Can Improve Your Health and the Environment

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While many American adults enjoy the perk of owning a car, as they pull out of their garage, they overlook one mode of transportation that may very well serve as not only an alternative mode of transp...

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