Bicycle Friendly Business

University of Wisconsin Madison| Silver Level

Business Highlights: The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides an individualized bike commuting marketing program, including door-to-door bike routing suggestions. They provide more than 10,000 bicycle rack stalls on campus; coupons for helmets and lights; bike racks on buses; self-service campus bicycle repair facility; air pumps at two additional locations on campus; and multiple paths, lanes, and bike bridges on campus which extend into rest of city. They continue to make bicycle-friendly investments and improvements including: PSAs for safe cycling, a lightway for nightime riding, organized rides for new students, investments in campus infrastructure to encourage a more bicycle friendly campus, a Smart Trips campaign, and a bicycle survey every other year. 

Most Compelling Bike Related Statistic: Twenty percent of students and 13 percent of faculty and staff bicycle in good weather. Six percent of students and three percent of faculty and staff bike in inclement weather – including the Wisconsin winters!

Most Compelling Bike Related Accomplishment: The university recently completed the Campus Drive Path – a solar powered 10-foot-wide asphalt bicycle path that links the university's agriculture campus to the southeast fringes of Shorewood Hills by way of the VA and UW hospitals.