Wheels Of Change Analysis

1. There many be many reason to why there is such an emphasis on cycling right now around the world, but in Tim Blumenthal’s article “Wheels of Change: the Rise of Bicycling in America” he isolates a few within the United States. Subsequently, even though he talks about the United States many of these reasons may be overarching global ones too. Within his article towards the bottom he mentions three perks: “companies save money on health insurances when encouraging employees to bike to work, younger generations are saving money by bicycle riding, and individuals who ride bikes more are more alert, healthier, and happier.” I believe all three of this perks are actually huge encouragements. As companies save more money they most likely are going to, I hope, provide more benefits to employees that do bicycle to work. Obviously, then as money and wealth become harder to find and achieve people are going to try …show more content…
One primary institution that I observe having a major role in protecting bike paths is family. As families try to do more and more together and become more active that life style is going to rub off on their children. And, one family experience that we saw emphasized during the video that does this is going on bike rides. This is going to then positive effect the bike path movement as more and more families are going to want to go on bike rides and the one on bike rides are going to want more places to travel. Another institution that is going to have a positive effect on the Bike path movement is political/economics. As mentioned above in Tim’s article companies are going to save more money with more employees commuting to work so they are going to encourage bike path development and proliferation. Political leaders are then also going to positively motivate the bike path project because it obviously looks good for them for endorsing increase public health. Two, it allows them to become apart of a project that the public can see they had a direct result