From: jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli)
Subject: Re: Employer encouragement of alternative means of commuting
Followup-To: ba.transsportation
Summary: Contact one of several established organizations
Reply-To: jciccare@adobe.com (John Ciccarelli)
Organization: Adobe Systems, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:33:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.183606.17923@igor.tamri.com> 
gary@igor.tamri.com (Gary Schwartz) writes:

>Our company is looking for ways to encourage employees to use 
>means of commuting other than the automobile.  Does anyone out there 
>have any suggestions or know of any ways that other companies have 
>provided such encouragement or incentives?

* Start by calling the marketing departments of each of the established 
transit and ridesharing organizations.  They can supply you with printed
handouts, bus route and system maps, etc, and the bus folks can give you
a display stand in which to put bus maps (though probably only a few
routes will apply to your workplace).  They will also be glad to come
to "commute alternatives" fairs or employee meetings, and have staff to
do so.

  RIDES, Inc., 60 Spear St. #650, SF 94105-1512
  861-7665 (may be an old number; call 411 if it doesn't work)

  Muni (in the SF phone book)

  CalTrain (1-800-660-4287; you'll probably have to ask for the
  Marketing number; explain what you need...)

* For help with encouraging bicycle commuting in SF and SF County,
call the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, 415-751-2453 ("BIKE"),
or email Dave Snyder (davesnyder@igc.apc.org).  SFBC has no paid staff, 
but volunteers also attend commute fairs -- with real commute bikes.

In Alameda and Contra Costa counties, call the East Bay Bicycle Coalition,
c/o Alex Zuckermann, 510-452-1221.  

On the mid-Peninsula and in Santa Clara County, call the Silicon Valley 
Bicycle Coalition, c/o Bill Michel, (bill.micheljr@eng.sun.com).

The League of American Wheelmen, a national bike advocacy organization,
can provide inexpensive flyers about bicycle commuting, for the employer 
and employee.  They're at 410-539-3399 (Baltimore, Md.)

* In Santa Clara County there's a county agency called Commuter Network,
which trains employer commute coordinators.  They give a 2-day course every
year or so to commute coordinator candidates from employers around the
county.  Someone from your company may be able to attend, or perhaps
you can purchase their excellent course notebook (about 3 inches thick,
full of instructions on how to make a program really work).  Also, there
may be an organization like them in SF county (I assume that's where
Utah St. is...).

  Commuter Network (Santa Clara County) 1-408-453-4030; Gail Collins

* There are consultants who specialize in setting up commute alternatives
programs.  One good one is:

  Jamie Jarvis, JW Environmental, 415-326-3870 (Palo Alto)

Jamie set up Silicon Graphics' excellent program; this included 
developing printed brochures and other materials especially for SGI.

* Contact one of the more proactive commute coordinators at companies 
that have an established program.  I'd start with Teresa Rizzo of 
Silicon Graphics (415-390-5172), who's very active, or Alan Aranha of 
Sun Microsystems (alan.aranha@ebay.sun.com).

/John


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