How does it work?

Safe and Active Genesee for Everyone (SAGE) is encouraging Genesee County residents to take an active approach to getting around. It’s Easy! Use active transportation, such as bicycling, walking or riding the bus. Log your trips and be automatically entered into the random monthly drawings for great prizes! These trips can take place anytime during the day and be any length. Each month SAGE will offer a different prize.

May's Prize $50 Sports Authority Gift Certificate

February's Winner: Michael Prusinowski

Need ideas on how to incorporate active transportation into your life?

Ditch your car keys. Visit www.prevention.com/mywalkingmaps to check out maps that can help you plan walking routes for your family’s outings, to get to work or school, or run errands.

• Bike to the grocery store to grab a few necessities
• Grab your co-workers and walk to lunch
• Take the bus to work
• Take a family bike ride to the library
• Use the Bus to visit your local shopping center
• Walk with your family to your local farmers market
• Put your bike on the bus to try out multi-modal transportation
  
  
  

Why is logging your miles important?

Walkable, bikeable, and accessible communities are places where people want to live and work. In order to effectively help policymakers understand the importance of policies and good community design, we want to show that people are using walking, biking, and mass transit for transportation! By logging your trips you are helping show that we need to invest in biking and walking facilities such as trails, sidewalks, and bike lanes and a quality mass transit system. The 21st Century hometown is one that offers transportation options and a network that can efficiently link people with great destinations.

Why Bike, Walk, Bus?

• The annual cost of operating a car is about $5,000, the average cost of bicycling is about $120 and walking is free (except a good pair of shoes)!
• A 150-pound cyclist burns 410 calories while pedaling 12 miles in an hour-almost the equivalent calories of a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder.®
• A two-person adult household that uses public transportation saves an average of $6,251 annually compared to a household with two cars.
• 50% of all trips in metropolitan areas are three miles or less and 28% of all metropolitan trips are one mile or less – distances easily traversed by foot or bicycle.
• Walking and bicycling for trips one to three miles, rather than taking a car, could reduce CO2 emissions by 9 to 23 million tons per year in the U.S. annually.