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How to get on the right track with the daily commute


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his March, the award- winning Scottish Workplace


Journey Challenge returns with more than £4,500 worth of prizes on offer. Businesses can sign up for the free online challenge organised by walking and cycling charity Sustrans, and funded by Transport Scotland, encouraging people to ditch the car in favour of sustainable travel options. Workplaces compete against each other to see who can clock up the most walking, cycling, public transport and car-sharing journeys over the course of a month. It’s a fun, interactive way to improve fitness, team building and promote active travel among staff members.


1. Happier, healthier workplace The Scottish Workplace Journey Challenge promotes a healthier commute.


Kirsty Rankin, Sustrans


Scotland Workplaces Coordinator, said: “We know that people who travel actively to work are fitter, healthier, happier and less likely to take sick days.


Six reasons to sign up for Sustrans’ challenge to ditch the car and commute by either cycling, walking,


car-sharing or public transport “By encouraging people


to make small changes to the way they get to work, we hope it will inspire them to make sustainable, long-term changes to the way they travel.”


2. Prizes The £4,500 fund includes Kindles, cinema tickets, retail vouchers, charity donations, travel passes and more. Workplaces who register before 1 March are also entered into a prize draw to win an Active Travel Breakfast or one of two workplace Dr Bike sessions. There are spot prizes throughout the challenge for logging journeys, inviting friends and posting photographs.


3. Competition You can compete individually, work collectively or foster a healthy sense of competition among colleagues, departments and other workplaces.


Individual challengers are judged on the number of journeys they complete while workplaces are judged on the overall rate of participation across the company.


4. Quick and convenient It’s easy to get involved, sign up and log your journeys via Sustrans’ website (www.scotland. getmeactive.org.uk), where you can monitor your activity, calories


burned and CO2 saved, alongside all important standings on the leaderboard.


5. Doing your bit for the environment Traffic is a major contributor to pollution. Walking, cycling, public transport and car-sharing are all greener ways to commute, helping to improve air quality, reduce CO2


emissions and environmental impact.


6. Award-winning Last year nearly 4,000 people from 300 businesses signed up. Logging over 55,000 journeys, saving more than £62,000 and nearly 60,000kg in CO2


emissions


by choosing to travel actively and sustainably for their journeys to, from and for work. The Scottish Workplace


Journey Challenge went on to win the Best Practice in Travel to School and Work Schemes prize at the Scottish Transport Awards in 2018.


Sign up today at www.


scotland.getmeactive.org. uk. For more information contact challenge@ sustrans.org.uk.


Sustrans is the charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle. We connect people and places, create liveable neighbourhoods, transform the school run and deliver a happier, healthier commute. Join us on our journey. www.sustrans.org.uk


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