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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!

Largest Contributor to our Carbon Footprint

Author
MARK SNYDER
Do It Green! Minnesota
As we learn more about the potential effects of climate change, many of us are exploring ways to reduce our "carbon footprint" or how much carbon dioxide is created by the choices we make in our homes, our travel, the food we eat, and what we buy and throw away. In Minnesota, more than 25% of the carbon dioxide emitted into the air is from motor vehicles, making cars one of the largest contributors to our individual carbon footprints.

One of the easiest and cheapest ways to immediately reduce our

Explore Your Travel Options

Author
METRO TRANSIT
If you're looking for ways to leave your car at home and reduce your carbon footprint, Metro Transit can help you pick the best option to get you moving.

Metro Transit has a variety of tools at metrotransit.org to get you started. One example is the Trip Planner which helps find the transit route that fits your needs. For instance, you can enter in a starting point, an end point destination and time of travel, and the Trip Planner will give you route options, fare information, and links to maps.

Benefits of Hybrid Buses

Author
METRO TRANSIT
Metro Transit's expanding fleet of hybrid-electric buses is helping Twin Cities' commuters experience an even greener ride.

Metro Transit unveiled its first hybrid bus in 2002 and recently added 60 more to its fleet as part of the agency's Go Greener initiative. Over the next four years, 112 more hybrids will follow.

These buses deliver about 25 percent better fuel economy and produce 90 percent fewer emissions than the buses they replace. Go Greener buses are exceptionally quiet, too.

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.

Footnotes/Endnotes

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”.

Footnotes/Endnotes

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

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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