The city has old bikes leaning against street signs and poles in the city center for short trips. Bikes donated by the civic minded are painted bright yellow and use is free. The city started with 10, and eventually wants to have 1000, with corporate sponsors to help maintain the fleet. It works in Portland. The ECO Pass bus pass program encourages businesses to subsidize transit instead of parking and targets normally non-bus riding employees.
Employees receive unlimited bus use throughout the six-county region.
In the event of an unplanned emergency during the day, the Guaranteed Ride Home Program allows employees to take a taxi free by showing their pass, a service also available to van pool users. For employers the ECO Pass program is a tax deductible transportation service much cheaper than expanding parking lots. In the first ten months more than 350 companies employing over 18,000 people signed up. There is a similar bus pass program for Colorado University students and staff. The bus pass programs pay for themselves.