Active Ingredient - Reclaim Your Power!

Walking. Bicycling. Alternatives to Driving Everywhere. Social justice. Alternatives to suburban boredom and waste. And the infrastructure, technology, and societal changes needed to get there.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Kaiser's questionable investment in free bikes

Does anybody else find it outrageous that health care provider Kaiser Permanente is shelling out $450,000 to fund a free bicycle loan program in Denver? As I've written before, free bikes have a history of being vandalized or stolen. At a time when health care is still being denied to so many, or the premiums are so high, this is not the right way for a health care provider to be spending its money.