BPCC: A fun way to help promote walking/biking in your KC-area workplace

Want to encourage your co-workers to walk and bicycle more?

During the week of May 19-23, 2003, MARC will team up with Kansas City Corporate Challenge to organize the first annual Bicycle and Pedestrian Commuter Challenge (BPCC)--a free, region-wide event open to all residents--in an effort to promote clean air and healthy lifestyles while reducing traffic congestion.

The idea is to leave your car at home for one week and bike or walk to work, keeping track of miles along the way.

The BPCC event is very simple—participants will walk or bike to work during the week of May 19–23, 2003.

Each team captain will record and report the miles walked or biked by members of the team. Individuals will do the same. If commuters wish to combine biking and walking with transit, each mile bused will count as one quarter of a mile walked.

To register, or for more information, contact Aaron Bartlett, Bike/Ped Transportation Planner, Mid-America Regional Council, abartlett@marc.org, 816/474-4240.

All commuters must by signed up by May 12th, 2003.

Companies and individuals in these counties are eligible to participate:
* Missouri - Cass, Clay Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Platte, Ray
* Kansas - Atchinson, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte

MARC has produced a printable PDF flier about the Bicycle and Pedestrian Commuter Challenge that you can post or distribute to your fellow employees.