So what if five San Francisco Bay Area cities, including San Jose (http://www.vta.org/bike_information/bike_sharing.html) and San Francisco(http://www.sfbike.org/?bikeshare), are launching their bike-share program? Well, it encourages us to leave our car behind and rent a bike for an hour or a day while we run errands, go sightseeing, or whatever. (More details can be found at http://bayareabikeshare.com.)
This reminded me of some figures I ran into some time ago about what would happen if all Americans aged 10-74 walked or biked half an hour a day instead of driving: we would save 6.5 billion gallons of gas and lose 3 billion pounds off our bodies.
Something to think about…and try.
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