Once-A-Week: Improve Your Journey to Work, Get Fit and Save Money

A new campaign has been launched to give people across Somerset a helping hand to get fit and save money by changing the way they travel to work. ‘Once-A-Week’ is part of Somerset County Council’s Moving Forward campaign to reduce traffic pollution and congestion in the county.

As part of the campaign, people are being encouraged to cut out a car journey to work once a week in order to get them to try walking, cycling, car sharing, using public transport or working from home.

Walking and cycling to work can be an effective way to fit some exercise into the daily routine of people who want to get fitter but feel that they don’t have the money or the time to go to the gym.

Car sharing, public transport or working at home are all great options for people who live too far away to walk or cycle. The journey is more relaxing, less stressful and often cheaper than paying petrol and parking costs alone.

Individuals can pledge to reduce their car use at www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk, where they will find more information about their various travel choices and get a free travel gift to help them on their way!

There are pedometers and cyclometers for walkers and cyclists, free bus tickets, travel mugs for car sharers and even some comfy socks for home workers.

By encouraging and enabling people to try a new way of travelling once a week, it is hoped that people will form healthier travel habits which they will take with them into the future.

For more information about travelling more sustainably in Somerset and to make your Once-A-Week pledge, go to www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk/once-week-pledge.