Petition to Change NI Bike Room
After 6 months, we have come to the unanimous conclusions:
1) The slope down into the parking area is dangerous for bikers to bike down or even walk down. It’s frequently wet, oily and slippery. In addition, it’s dark and hard to see- we don’t have headlights like cars. The path is also dirty, and the drainage grate makes it impossible for road bikes to bike down. When it’s raining, it’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. And at night, cards drive down and take the turn in the dark as we push our bikes down/up the slope- another danger.
2) The room is dirty and stuffy. The air is not clear, and the room is filled with trash. More than once employees have encountered rats running along the walls. And, with the dust and dirt, for those with chronic allergies, this makes the experience extremely uncomfortable. 3) There is nowhere inside the room to lock the bikes. While the room has a padlock, the door is frequently left open. While it’s not clear by whom, we are aware that other building workers use the room for storing and accessing equipment at times, who aren’t as worried about the safety of the bicycles inside. 4) Of the 15 bikers below, only 2 currently use the bike room due to the conditions above. And they do this with extreme reluctance and discomfort. 5) Statistics show that companies should support employees who bike to work. Why?a. Based on surveys from 828 people taken during January through February of 2012, commuting to work under your own power "increases commute well-being." In other words,the happiest commuters are those who walk and bike – and bikers came out the happiest.
b. There have been several UK incentives to reduce taxes for employees to bike to work since it benefits the environment and benefits overall employee health. One example can be found here.
c. A report from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging has shown that exercise, including biking to work, helps maintain mental agility. Other studies have shown that this leads to overall improvement of physical health of employees who then take fewer sick days, are happier, and therefore less likely to change jobs.
d. Some suggestions on ways to support biking to work can be found here.
For these reasons, we would like to petition for an improvement in the bike-room conditions. Should the petition be heeded, we would like to request to be a part of the decision-making process regarding what improvements should be made and how they should be implemented.Bikers in the company:
1) daniel 2) Rachel r 3) danielle 4) nir ofri 5) reut 6) sarah n. 7) tom 8) eran 9) lior 10) helene 11) evyathar 12) asaf k (scooter) 13) asaf g. 14) stefanie 15) meital r
Please sign the petition to declare the following:
I support bikers in the workplace and agree that conditions in the Natural Intelligencebike-room should be improved.
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