Metro works to improve air quality, reduce car traffic and create more opportunities for walking, biking, taking transit and carpooling. How? Metro’s Regional Travel Options program works closely with businesses, non-profit groups and public agencies across the region to promote and support the use of travel options to reduce pollution, decrease congestion and help create a healthier community. Here are just some of the accomplishments Metro and its travel options partners achieved during 2010:
- helped save 3,400,000 gallons of gas by encouraging people to choose alternatives to driving alone
- eased congestion and increased mobility with the vanpool program and CarpoolMatchNW.com
- achieved an estimate of 74-million vehicle miles reduced in the region during 2010
- helped one-quarter of the region’s workforce access information and incentives for commute options (reaching 200,000 of about 800,000 employees in the region)
- launched the eighth edition Bike There! map and gave away more than 500 free maps to local non-profits
- awarded $533,000 in federal transportation grants to fund projects that improve air quality, address community health issues, reduce auto traffic and create more opportunities for walking and biking
- helped launch the new Gresham Civic Drive MAX station through individualized marketing to residents in the vicinity.
For more information, contact Katie Edlin at [email protected] or 503-813-7575.