Vanpooling Makes Cents

R-TRIP and King County Metro recently attended a transportation event where we met with employees at a company moving to Redmond next month. Over 60 employees signed up to join a vanpool for their new commute to Redmond!  Perhaps you’ve been thinking about a vanpool and have some of the same questions they asked?
What is a vanpool?
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520 Closure Creates Bus Re-routes

WSDOT will close the SR 520 bridge for construction this weekend, Friday, August 26 at 11pm through Monday, August 29 at 5am.  The closure will cause several bus routes along 520 to use another route.  Here is a note on the bus changes from our friends at KC Metro:
Construction Reroute – Routes 255, 271, 280 Night Owl & [...]

Go Local and Dinner’s on Us!

10 Redmond residents are awarded a free dinner in Redmond. How’d they do it?
They walked, they biked and they took the bus.  More importantly they reduced a vehicle trip in Redmond.  These Redmond residents left their cars at home when it came time to run personal errands like trips to the grocery store, library, soccer [...]

July Commuters Take Home $25

Huge R-TRIP thanks to all Redmond commuters who reduced vehicle trips in July and logged their trips at GOrtrip.com. 50 lucky winners each received $25 in the random monthly drawing.

Aimee H
Pitney Bowes

Amber S
The Village at Overlake Station

Blake K
Microsoft

Brendan R
Microsoft

Christo V
Microsoft

Christopher M
SeaBright Holdings, Inc.

Chung N
Microsoft

Corwin L
Wildlife Computers

David B
B.E Meyers

David M
Microsoft

Douglas L
Microsoft

Erica P
Genie Industries

Erik M
Microsoft

Ernie Y
Sound Publishing/Redmond Reporter

Frank T
Alstom [...]

r Let’s Play Tag! Winners Announced

We have four more winners in the game of R-TRIP Tag! Meet Libby B, Manik R, Glen S, and Brett C.  All won $50 Think Redmond AmEx to spend in Redmond. 
If you haven’t scanned the R-TRIP Tag, do so now. We’ll be drawing the Staycation and Kinnect later this month. Do it now for a chance to win!  
 
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Have we got a job for you…

Goodbye Courty, Hello You
I’ll be the first to admit that the quality and regularity of our blog posts have suffered since our Master of all things social, Courty, moved on to greener pastures last month. However, with change comes opportunity, and here’s one for you (or perhaps someone you know). The City of Redmond is looking for a creative, [...]