T5.3 Biking to work
Require municipal and large employers to provide a shower and/or changing area for employees to facilitate biking to work.
“Determinants of bicycle commuting in the Washington, DC region” does statistical analysis on some variables and concludes that free car parking at work is associated with 70% smaller odds for bike commuting, and that people at workplaces with parking for bikes, lockers, and showers are five times as likely to ride bikes to work as people without any of those. A recent study statistically assessing the effects of policies such as bicycle lockers, locked rooms/cage, clothes storage, bike racks, and showers arrived at the same kind of conclusions about them. (Of course, it’s also possible that workplaces with a lot of cyclists for other reasons are more likely to install bike amenities…)