Bicycle Friendly Business

Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission| Bronze Level

Business Highlights: The Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission (RVARC) provides showers, changing rooms, bicycle maintenance supplies, incentives during Bike to Work Day, and a flexible work schedule to encourage employees to ride their bicycles. The result of such encouragement is that 30 percent of the staff commute to work by bike more than twice a week.  There is an abundance of bike parking directly outside of the RVARC workplace and employees are allowed to bring their bikes inside to store. The business organizes the RIDE Solutions program, an alternative transportation program (www.ridesolutions.org) and a bicycle rack donation program for the region. They have also developed an online bicycle commuting guide for the Roanoke Valley, an interactive bicycle map, the Downtown Roanoke Bicycle Parking Location Map, the Greenway Map, and have updated and reprinted 10,000 additional copies of the Bus, Bike, Hike Roanoke Valley Map.

Most Significant Recent Accomplishment: More than thirty percent of employees bike to work at least twice a week; one employee logged nearly 1000 bicycle-commuting miles during 2008.