It’s Wheel Options Time Again

The Wheel Options fall campaign will be giving away $2,500 cash as the grand prize!  Participate in Wheel Options by choosing not to drive alone to work at least twice during October 16-29, and you’ll be eligible for fantastic prizes including $2,500 cash!
Simply log your minimum two commutes at www.WheelOptions.org. Eligible trips include:

Sharing the ride in carpool or vanpool
Riding the bus or train
Bicycling [...]

October Vanpool List

Each month King County Metro updates the list of vanpools commuting to Redmond. Perhaps there’s one that matches your commute.  If you are curious, click here to see the list.
If you missed the previous post on vanpools, click here to learn how a vanpool works and how you can save money and earn financial incentives [...]

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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May is Bike Month…Roll on

May is Bike-to-Work month and Redmond bikers have lots of resources and incentives available for your bike commute.
From May 1st to May 31st, the Cascade Bicycle Club is hosting the Group Health Commute Challenge, where cyclists  have a chance to win great prizes.  With more than 10,000 riders, it is one of the largest commute programs [...]

Realtime Ridesharing Can Save 520 Bridge Commuters Time and Money

With the introduction of tolling to the Seattle-area’s SR 520 floating bridge this spring, many King County commuters who drive alone will want to consider other options.
One new option is real-time ridesharing. A pilot project called go520, launched by global transportation firm Avego, is the first large-scale pilot in the United States to study how [...]

Win a Trip to NYC

Hello R-TRIP community (R-TRIP-pers? R-TRIPians? Tripasaurus Rexes?) –
It’s time again for another exciting promotion from Wheel Options.  This spring, if you sign up and log at least 2 commutes between March 13th -26th, you will be entered to win a grand prize trip to New York!
Get your alternative commute on, and you could be star-spotting [...]

Wheel Options Promotion

Not a lot to be said about this from our end  since the information itself is fairly succinct, and posted on Wheel Options’ home page.
But very briefly, Wheel Options is running another promotion to help sweeten the deal with a $2,500 grand prize for choosing to not drive alone to work.  For more details visit wheeloptions.org.
Don’t [...]

Summer Residential Challenge

The Redmond Summer Undriving TM Challenge is 8-weeks long, running today through September 4. Try biking,
walking and taking the bus as an alternative to driving. Encourage your friends and family to try alternatives to
driving too and be sure to tell them they can get licensed to Undrive TM at Undriving.org. By collectively reducing
driving trips, we’ll [...]

May is Bike to Work Month

May is bike to work month. From May 1st to May 31st, the Cascade Bicycle Club is hosting the Group Health Commute Challenge, where cyclists  have a chance to win great prizes.  In Cascade’s own words:

This May, join the popular Group Health Commute Challenge.  With more than 10,000 riders, it is one of the largest [...]

Win a Trip to Hawaii

Wheel Options is offering a new promotion:
Sign up and log at least two alternative commutes (bus, bike, walk, carpool, vanpool, train, ferry, telecommute, or compressed work schedule) and you’ll get the chance to win a trip to Hawaii.  Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?  Well, that’s because it is pretty good…not to mention free.
At any rate, [...]