From this week's Los Angeles County Bike Coalition newsletter comes news that one major employer in Los Angeles is bringing bike sharing for their employees.
Bike Sharing At Good SamGood Samaritan Hospital in Downtown Los Angeles haslaunched a bike-sharing program that allows its approximately 1,500 employees toborrow bicycles for traveling around the hospital campus and nearby destinationsbetween 7 a.m. and dusk. The hospital currently has three bikes available foruse, but may expand the program if it proves popular, said Good SamaritanPresident and CEO Andy Leeka. The bike-sharing plan is meant to complementexisting programs at Good Samaritan focused on employee wellness, includingon-campus exercise and weight-loss classes and healthy cafeteria food. "We can'treally espouse to our community to stay healthy if we don't set the exampleourselves," said Leeka, who bikes 30 miles to and from work three times a week."A bicycle is the most efficient means of transportation out there, and it'snon-polluting." Good Samaritan also hosts the annual Blessing of the Bicycleseach May.
Speaking of the Bike Coalition, this would be a good time to consider a membership for 2009 as a Holiday Present for that Special Someone in your life.
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