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Government and corporate organisations from around Australia have made the
commitment to join this huge event, with an estimated:
• Over 60,000  active participants 
• 2600 registered workplaces, many hosting their own breakfasts 
 
Growing list of senior executives as National Ambassadors
Ambassadors helping to take the event national include: Chip Goodyear (CEO, BHP
Billiton), Brian Hartzer (Group Managing Director Personal Division, ANZ), Michael
D'Ascenzo (Commissioner of Taxation), Robert Tickner (CEO, Australian Red Cross),
David Borthwick (Department Secretary, Australian Government Department of
Environment and Water Resources), Darrell Wade (Intrepid Travel CEO) and Peter Daly
(RACV Chief Engineer, Traffic and Roads)
Community breakfast events in CBDs and town centres 
Free breakfast events confirmed in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth.
Features include: massage, helmet hair repair, bike engravings by police, “Spokes-
personalities”, high profile ambassadors including CEOs and pollies, spot prizes and
giveaways. Another 34 confirmed town-centre events throughout Australia, from Apollo
Bay to Alice Springs and beyond.
 
There’s never been a better time to go national...
 
Bicycle counts from around Australia show 10–30% increase on major commuter routes
in the past year and journey-to-work census data due to be released in Oct is expected
to reflect that. 
 
Bicycles outsold cars for the fifth year in a row, reaching a record of 1.3 million in 2006,
while motor vehicles declined.
 
34% of those who took up riding in the Victorian event in 2006 were still riding to work
five months later.
 
Green facts: 
 
National Ride to Work Day will stimulate greenhouse gas savings totalling around
10,600 tonnes in the first three years, that’s more than 2560 hot air balloons or
212,000,000 “black balloons” of CO2. 
 
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