Do you wish it was easier to fit fitness into your daily routine? Of course! We all do. And now you can. Introducing Bus Stop Moves, where whether you have five or twenty minutes until the next GCRTA bus, you can make a positive impact on your health.

Bus Stop Moves’ mission is to increase opportunities to move healthy and improve peoples’ perceptions about the “right” place to exercise by putting the resource out in the public on canvases that already exist.

Our group of artists and community activists launched the Bus Stop Moves program in Fall 2015 with partners at The MetroHealth System and through the GCRTA’s Adopt-A-Shelter program.  Translucent vinyl adhesive wraps illustrated with simple exercises and health tips cover four glass panels of each bus shelter in the program. The moves are meant for anyone of reasonable mobility to do in “street” clothes, on your way to work or school. Some of the moves can be performed sitting down, and all can be modified.

Each shelter also contains a panel called “Take It To The Streets”, where the number of steps to a more traditional place of recreation is listed, like a Metropark or a dance studio.  This is a great way to connect people to the neighborhood whether or not you plan to get on a bus at all -  which is where active living and healthy eating comes into play!

In Fall 2016, 10 new bus shelters will be wrapped with the Bus Stop Moves program in different Cleveland neighborhoods where sedentary lifestyles, diabetes, and heart disease are real battles in the community. To kick-off the program launching in these neighborhoods, free fitness classes will be offered and fresh, healthy foods will be distributed to anyone who demonstrates their favorite dance or exercise move. GCRTA bus passes will be distributed at no cost to riders who opt for this sustainable mode of transportation, too.

Next time you are waiting for a bus – don’t just sit there – don’t just stand there – busta move with Bus Stop Moves!