American Apparel bicycle program provides healthy benefits to employees and environment.

LOS ANGELES - American Apparel, the largest T-shirt manufacturer in the U.S., launched its Employee Bicycle Program last fall as a transportation solution to the lengthy Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit bus strike. The Program is a special offering inspired by community bicycle lending programs in Copenhagen and other cities.

American Apparel's bicycle program also plays an important role on the company's environmental outreach, encouraging the reduction of driving among our employees, recognizing that even a five-mile commute will result in a car emitting over one hund