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A Regional Bike and Pedestrian
Newsflash
REMINDER!
Bike to Work Day
May 21, 2010
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Registration for Bike to Work Day opened earliier this month and already
400 people have registered! Outreach continues across the region with postcards
and posters (contact us if you'd like to help distribute).
May is Clean Commute Month and National Bike Month. Celebrate by showing
others how great it is to commute by bike or just ride for fun. With more of us
out there enjoying the great riding weather, we may even be able to inspire
others and surpass last years Bike to Work Day registration numbers!
The March edition of the BikePed Beacon reached over 1,000 readers
like you, but we'd love to grow or list even further.
Please encourage someone new to sign up to receive the e-newsletter, get
Bike to Work Day facebook updates to share, and register to ride on Bike to Work
Day. Chances are if you find a co-worker to ride with, you are more likely to
ride.
Thank you for all that you do to commute by
bicycle.
Stephanie Yanovitz
BikePed Beacon
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CAN YOU IMAGINE
2060?
Contribute your
ideas to help make this region and our communities great places to live and work
-- for you, your children, and your children's children.
 Citizens and organizations from all around the Baltimore
region are invited to take part in a groundbreaking series of public workshops
to imagine the future of transportation.
Workshop participants will have an opportunity to share their
values and ideas about how future transportation initiatives can make the region
a better place to live. Later public workshops will deal more specifically with
the planning process to achieve this vision.
Attend one of these upcoming
workshops!
Monday, April 26, 6 - 8 p.m.
Pascal Senior Center
125 Dorsey
Road, Glen Burnie, MD 21061
Wednesday, April 28, 6 - 8
p.m.
Westminster Senior Center
125 Stoner Ave., Westminster, MD
21157
Thursday, April 29, 6 - 8
p.m.
Planning Board Meeting Room
105 West Chesapeake Ave., Towson, MD
21204
Monday, May 3, 6 - 8 p.m.
State
Center, Building 4
201 W. Preston Street - Atrium, Baltimore, MD
21201
Tuesday, May 4, 7 - 9 p.m.
Howard
Community College, Duncan Hall - Kittleman Room
10901 Little Patuxent
Parkway, Columbia, MD 21044
Tuesday, May 11, 6 - 8 p.m.
County
Administrative Building, 2nd Floor Conference Room
220 South Main Street, Bel
Air, MD 21014
Registration begins 30 minutes prior to each workshop. Additional details
about transit access and driving directions, links to join the imagine 2060
e-mail list or the Facebook and Twitter online communities, and how to RSVP for
an upcoming public workshop can be found by visiting the link below.
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BIKE TO WORK
DAY! Registration open and more rally details.
 The 13th Annual Bike to Work Day (B2WD), hosted by the members of the
Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC), will be held on Friday, May 21,
2010.
Regional rally site coordinators are busy making
arragements for bicyclists to party. At the rally site, riders will receive a
free t-shirt, bicycle resources, and a Bicycle Commuter Guide for Employees and
Employers, as well as be entered to win prizes (including a folding
bike).
If you are interested in being a sponsor for B2WD please contact
BMC's Stephanie Yanovitz at syanovitz@baltometro.org.
You don't have to wait until Bike to Work Day to start commuting by bike,
transit, carpool, or walking! Information and help is always available on the
B2WD web site.
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TAX
BENEFITS
The Bicycle Commuter Act
Since January 2009 a tax benefit for bicyclists has been available. If you
ride your bike for a substantial portion of your commute, accept only the
benefit for bicycling (not transit too), and use the fringe benefit for your
bicycle then you can qualify.
Talk to your human resources department and your employer. Biking to work
can improve productivity, build employee morale and reduce health care costs
and monthly parking expenses.
Your office can start by appointing a Bike to Work Day coordinator and
providing incentives and challenges for bicyclists. Ride as a group on Bike to
Work Day.
>> Employee Tax
Benefit |
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BIKE FRIENDLY
BUSINESSES Print out the Bike and
Benefit Card!
Bike and Benefit Card
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Share information on Bike Friendly Businesses with your favorite
attractions. Help build a benefit reward card to promote bicycling and
businesses in your neighborhood.
>>Become a Bicycle
Friendly Business
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In The
News, Events, and Other Useful Links |
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EVENTS
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IN THE NEXT
ISSUE
May's BikePed Beacon will focus on Safe Routes to School
and Street Smart Pedestrian and Bicyclist safety. With the good weather, longer
daylight hours, and the end of the school year approaching our streets are used
even more by the most vulnerable users.
Send your stories and article ideas to syanovitz@baltometro.org. |
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