Originally Posted by
buzzman
...A colleague from work drives in from about a 1/4 mile from my house and goes the way I would go in were I to drive. I asked him:
- How long it takes him- 30 mins - 1 hour+ By bike it takes me from 28 minutes to 45 minutes door to door.
- Where he parks and what it costs per month?: Our parking is subsidized by our employer- (I wish my bike ride was!) but it still costs him $175/month- our employer pays another $175.!
- He takes the Mass pike, a toll road, it is $2/each way.
Parking and tolls alone equals almost $2500 for the year and my employer is out another $2100 on top of that! That's $4600 not including gas, wear and tear on the car, insurance etc., for one person to drive their car....
Unless your colleague has some physical reason he can't ride, or something else preventing him from doing it (like taking a child to day care, though several here do that too), I'd think he'd be all over this. What's the down-side? Heck, for his
one-year savings in parking and tolls alone he could buy a VERY nice road bike. And if you live that close I imagine you could easily show him the ropes, plot his route, etc. What a no-brainer.
But then again, a guy who works in my building lives across the street from me and is a pretty serious cyclist, yet drives to work every day. And we only live ~5 miles from work. I've never said a word about it to him; he just sees me getting ready to leave each day and says, "I know, I know."