pedal instead

• 144 bikes parked
• 1237.5 miles ridden
• 58 gallons fuel saved
• 1132 pounds CO2 prevented
• 103.1 hours exercise

Walker Evans spoke to UAEA Director Catherine Girves about Pedal Instead, Bike to Work Week, and cycling in general. Check out the podcast on his site!

• 332 bikes parked
• 3568.4 miles ridden
• 168 gallons fuel saved
• 3265 pounds CO2 prevented
• 297.4 hours exercise

• 8 bikes parked
• 101 miles ridden
• 5 gallons fuel saved
• 92 pounds CO2 prevented
• 8.4 hours exercise

Pedal Instead and our director Catherine Girves were nominated for the WTS Columbus chapter’s annual award and won. We then were entered into the running for the international Innovative Transportation Solutions Award, and WON THAT AS WELL! Read our press release about the award and check out Catherine accepting it at the WTS Conference in Seattle in May.

We are pleased to announce that The Community Festival has awarded Pedal Instead a generous grant of $1000 for the purchase of equipment. We are extremely grateful for this support and thank the committee for their decision.

UAEA declined two-thirds of our requests for Pedal Instead in 2008, even turning cyclists away from several events (including ComFest) because we couldn’t accommodate demand with the amount of equipment available to us. This grant will help us meet current demand and set us up to expand our programming throughout 2009 and beyond.

Look for Pedal Instead this year at ComFest on the corner of Dennison & Buttles.

Catherine discusses Pedal Instead at the COSI Innovation Showcase. Photo courtesy cosiscience @ Flickr.

The Enrichment Association was honored to showcase Pedal Instead at COSI’s reception to launch Innovation Showcase, their new series of permanent art and technology installations by local innovators. The event attracted several hundred people interested in the newest and best ideas Central Ohio has to offer. Low-tech bike parking turned out to be a big hit!

• 184 bikes parked
• 1469.5 miles ridden
• 69 gallons fuel saved
• 1345 pounds CO2 prevented
• 122.5 hours exercise

• 3871 bikes
• 41,173 miles ridden
• 39,345 pounds co2 prevented
• 2,081 pounds other emissions prevented
• 287 volunteers
• 1420 volunteer shifts

The number of bikes we parked in 2008 was up 32% over the number in 2007. And ‘09 promises to be even better…

• 42 bikes parked
• 267.6 miles ridden
• 13 gallons fuel saved
• 245 pounds CO2 prevented
• 22.3 hours exercise