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*** Some of the visual and real measures to accomplish our mission objectives are driven by statistics. • Twelve bicycles can fit in the space needed to park a single car freeing up parking spaces in our Rockwell Collins parking.. • Bicycling to work is a great way to get a little bit of exercise everyday. • The well-documented obesity epidemic contributes to heart disease, cancer, stroke and Type 2 diabetes, which together, constitute 40% of the leading causes of death in Cedar Rapids. • With gas recently trending near $4.00/gallon, bicycling makes more financial sense than ever; a bike’s annual operating cost is estimated to be $120 (vs. $5,000-12,000 for a car). • A typical vehicle travels 4.5 miles per dollar. For the same mileage, a bikes operational cost is….. free. • For short trips, bicycling is an important tool to combat global warming: up to 70% of emissions from a 10-mile trip occur within the first mile. In the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Area, 43% of trips are two miles or less. • If every person in the Cedar Rapids area, living within 5 miles of their workplace pedaled to their job on just one day, Bike to Work Day, more than 60,000 vehicles would be off the road, reducing tailpipe emissions by more than 150,000 pounds, at a total cost savings of $104,000/day.

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