The new Active Commuting Toolkit is designed to help local businesses enable their employees to leave their cars at home and utilize healthier modes of transportation, when they can.
WELLCOM, along with several local partners, announced the new Active Commuting Toolkit at a press conference on Tuesday.
Daniel Lawse, Chief Century Thinker at Verdis Group, says employers don’t have a parking problem when employees are complaining, it’s actually a walking problem.
He says that employers don’t have the infrastructure to remove the barriers to enable and empower people to commute in multiple ways.
"This idea of creating an environment at your workplace where people have transportation choice, where I’m supported whether I walk or bike or ride the bus or carpool or choose to drive alone. It’s not about this is against the car. It’s about let’s give people the choice and the freedom to move in the ways they want to so they don’t have to go to the gym because they were actively commuting into work.”
Some of the program participants include UNMC and Nebraska Medicine.
For more information on the Active Commuting Toolkit, the website is ElevatingWellness.org.