FAQ

Yes!

We encourage schools to start staff teams and/or classroom teams. Not only will this help increase your students' and staffs' activity levels, but it will also decrease traffic congestion at busy drop-off and pick-up times as well as decrease vehicle idling and improve the air quality!

Encouraging physical activity as a lifestyle

The average cycle commuter travels 20-30 minutes one-way on their commute, easily meeting Health Canada’s recommendation of one hour of physical activity each day. The most important influencing factors for people to Bike to Work are:

• fun; and
• health & wellness

Surprisingly, people are less convinced by these benefits:

• saving money,
• using time efficiently; and
• helping to protect the environment.

For this reason, Bike to Work Week focuses on and accentuates the fun and health benefits of cycling.

Greater sense of community connectedness

People get excited about Bike to Work Week.  In the workplace it is a great opportunity for colleagues to develop camaraderie in encouraging one another to fit activity into their day.  The celebration stations provide a festive atmosphere that visibly demonstrate the fun of cycling to both cyclists and motorists.

1. Register (click the orange Registration button up top)
2. After you enter your personal information, choose to register as a Team Leader
3. Create a Team
4. Add teammates to your team (or encourage teammates to register and join your team)
5. Login to your BTWW Dashboard (click the Login Button and enter your email address and password) and click "Communication" to email possible teammates to see if they want to join your team

Click "Register".

You can start a new team by Registering as a "Team Leader". Once you register as a team leader, you can add people to your team. If you do not want to be the team leader for your team, then you can re-assign this role to another teammate. 

1. Search to see if other groups or individuals from your community are involved; combine resources
2. Determine what you want to do in your first year - this may range from organizing a few workplace teams to holding one or several celebration station(s)
3. Contact Bike to Work BC: Terri-Lynn Gifford, Program Coordinator, Bike to Work BC Society, terri-lynn@biketowork.ca
4. Request or attend a nearby workshop for your community
5. Develop your plan of action (Events, Prizes, Promotion)
6. Make sure participating teams register on-line

Costs will vary from community to community and the amount of local and provincial sponsors and funders. Bike to Work BC can help you establish budgets and provide tips on attaining local sponsors. Depending upon overall funding seed funds may be available to help local communities-available after completing a simple application process.