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Transportation

Author
Barb Thoman
Transit for Livable Communities
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Transportation is a means of gaining access to the goods and services. Access can be provided by trains, planes, buses, bicycles, private automobiles, taxi cabs, or just by walking. The most environmentally-friendly forms of transportation are walking and bicycling. Unfortunately, government spends little on these two forms of transportation in comparison with what it spends on roads and parking. Many of our new communities aren't even built with sidewalks today!

Save More than the Price of Gas | Metro Transit Can Help You Go Greener

Author
Peter Raeker
Metro Transit

An average Twin Cities commuter contributes about 2.6 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by driving alone to work. Multiply that volume of pollution times the number of people driving alone each day and it adds up to a serious impact.

Resources

Learn how you can go greener at www.metrotransit.org

or speak to a transit representative at 612-373-3333.

Commit to Not Driving Just One Day a Week

Author
It's Easy To Bike-N-Ride With Metro Transit
Metro Transit

All Metro Transit buses and trains are equipped with bike racks, helping to expand your trip options. Racks on buses accommodate up to two bikes at a time. Each Hiawatha light-rail train car can hold four bikes. There is no additional charge for using bike racks. Those who combine biking and transit know how convenient bike racks make traveling around the Twin Cities. Metro Transit makes it easy to pedal for part of the way to your destination and ride the rest.

Resources

Reduce Your Commuting Costs by Asking Your Employer about Metropass

Author
Bob Gibbons
Metro Transit

More and more Twin Cities businesses – large and small – are helping employees underwrite the cost of commuting by bus and train. Employees within a company frequently become the catalyst for a company-sponsored transit benefit by asking their employers to examine Metro Transit’s premium business partnership called “Metropass”.

Resources

Contact:

Metro Transit
Employer Programs Hotline
612-349-7427
www.metrotransit.org

A Case for Bicycle Commuting

Author
Dan Scheuller
Bicycle commuter

Includes Listing of Bicycling Resources

Resources
books: 
Bicycle Commuting Made Easy, Bicycle Magazine, 1992
books: 
A Commuting Alternative, Fredrick L. Wolfe
books: 
Bicycle Routes Around Minneapolis, $2, To order write: J. Gerlach, 1827 5th St. N., Mpls, MN, 55418
Resources

Bicycle Resource List:

Bicycle Advisory Boards

Minneapolis: 612-673-2411

St. Paul: 651-290-0309

MN State: 651-296-9966

U of Minnesota: 612-625-9000

www.mnsbac.org

Minneapolis Bicycle Advisory Committee

(bike locker rental information, etc.)

612-673-2614

Minnesota Critical Mass

www.mncriticalmass.org/html/openingpage.html

Hennepin County Bicycle Advisory Board

763-745-7633

www.co.hennepin.mn.us

Advises Henn. Cty. Board on cycling issues

Metro Commuter Services

(get on the Chain Gang mailing list & Bike Shop Directory)

651-602-1602

www.metrocommuterservices.org

MN Department of Transportation

(Explore MN Bikeways map sales)

651-296-2216

Metropolitan Council Regional Data Center

(Twin Cities Bicycle Map & Commuter Guide sales)

651-602-1140

Twin Cities Bicycling Club

612-924-2443

www.bikeTCBC.com

Sibley Bike Depot

(Bike transit station in downtown St. Paul)

651-222-2080

www.bikeped.org

Part of the Minnesota Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance

Bicycle Repair & Classes:

Freewheel Bicycle

1812 S. 6th St.

Minneapolis, MN 55454

612-339-2219

Email: classes@freewheelbike.com

www.freewheelbike.com

Basic & Intensive Maintenance Classes Bicycle Workshop $6/hr.

Hoigaard's

St. Louis Park, MN

952-929-1351

Free Bicycle Clinics

www.hoigaards.com

Twin Cities Bicycling Club

Roseville, MN

952-924-2443

www.bikeTCBC.com

Free Basic Bicycle Repair

www.members.aol.com/biketune/term.htm

Online Bicycle Tune-Up, Step By Step

Bike Racks:

Dero Bike Parking Racks

612-359-0689

www.dero.com

Bike Shop Distributors

612-331-3445

MN Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance

651-222-2080

www.bikeped.org

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