I'm working with a company right now that has decent support for bike commuting (at least to its corporate headquarters). I think this is due in large part to two things:
- Geography - To be a large company in the PNW and not support bike commuting is a pretty big PR misstep.
- The CEO is a fairly active cyclist.
I'm not an employee, so I don't know the extent of the details (bus passes, etc.), but I do know that there are multiple large bike cages inside of the parking garage, with racks for *lots* of bikes in each, lockers for storage, and workbenches, stands and tools out for anyone to use (and always arranged neatly on the pegboards and in the drawers). There's a full gym inside of the building with locker rooms and showers, as well. (And more coffee than you can shake a stick at.) There are also bike racks in front of the building for shoppers (there are a couple of retail stores and food places in the building), messengers, and people who don't want to use the garage. (Great for if you just want to run in and grab some stuff to take home to work on.)
And they run a shuttle service along the main bus corridor to bring people over to the building, since it can be a hazardous/harrowing walk (including crossing several large sets of very active train tracks).
Parking a car is big pain here. There's a garage, but it has a huge waiting list (someone told me they were measuring the wait in years at this point). The alternatives are parking at an open air lot about a mile away, or finding a place to wedge your car along what are essentially alleys in a commercial/light industrial area. Ugh.



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