Bike to Work Week is an event celebrated across the United States each May to encourage bicycling and promote public awareness of bicycling and bike safety
By celebrating biking and promoting it as an equitable, safe, and healthy alternative to driving, we can:
Improve health outcomes
Spending time outdoors is good for physical and mental health. Biking has a positive effect on well-being, self-confidence, and resistance to stress.
Reduce air emissions
Switching from driving to biking — to work, school, essential trips, and recreational activities — reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to the climate crisis and can have serious negative health impacts.
Improve bicycle safety awareness
Promotion of Bike to Work Week helps raise awareness of the rules of the road for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists, and also highlights the need for continued expansion of safe and comfortable sidewalks, bike lanes, shared-use paths and safe crossings.
Improve transportation equity
Many people throughout the Baltimore region lack access to a car or cannot drive. Biking can provide a meaningful transportation option.