EasyStreet Blog

They blogged so we’ll brag — the Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) has recognized EasyStreet for becoming the first and only “official” Bike Friendly Business in Beaverton. (We recently earned a bronze award from the League of American Bicyclists.)

To read the entire interview with EasyStreet’s VP of Customer Services, John Beaston, go to this post by Margaux at the BTA blog.

It’s time for the Carefree Commuter Challenge, so EasyStreet employees are making sure we take a few extra bike trips as we participate. EasyStreet’s Co-Founder, VP of Customer Services and dedicated cyclist, John Beaston, recently pulled together our first group bike ride. (Unfortunately, a few of our dedicated riders were out of the office!) You can see the 7.5-mile route we pedaled here. Another trip — this time a lunch excursion along the Fanno Creek Greenway at a little over 11 miles — is planned for next week.

Portland is a bicycle friendly town.  In fact, earlier this year Portland was the first major city to win the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) coveted Platinum award – their highest level of distinction.   (Portland was at the lower Gold level for several years.)  Now the LAB has extended their “bicycle-friendly” classification to businesses.  Their Bicycle Friendly Business award honors businesses who pedal the extra mile to make their locations friendly to bikes and have employee and community programs which encourage bicycling.   This is the first year of the award.  We are pretty bike-oriented around here so we applied.

EasyStreet won a Bronze level of bicycle friendliness!

So, what makes EasyStreet so bike friendly?   First, a lot of EasyStreet bikes to work, even out here in the suburban westside.  We have participation running from 5% to 25% depending upon the weather and time of year.  It helps that we allow bike parking inside (right next to your cubicle) and have showers available.  And we donate various Internet services to a host of bicycle-related organizations from around the Portland Metro area and Oregon.

While we are proud of the award, we are not stopping here.  We have a Gold level in our sights for next year.

Here is a link to the LAB press release.