Pima County Guarantees You a Ride Home if You Walk, Bike, Bus, or Carpool
If you drive alone to work for fear of needing your vehicle in case of an emergency, here's a way out: The Pima County Travel Reduction Program offers alternate mode users a free ride home in case of an emergency where you need to leave work quickly.
How Does It Work?
County employees are eligible to participate in the program if:
You use an alternate mode of transportation at least twice a week;
You have an emergency (illness, repairs, unscheduled work meeting, unscheduled overtime, or family emergency); and
You have registered with the Travel Reduction Program to participate in the Guaranteed Ride Home Program.
Once you have registered, a taxi voucher will be sent to you. When/if an emergency comes up and you use your taxi voucher, a replacement will be automatically sent to you. There is no limit to the number of vouchers you use, but the taxi-company will not accept the voucher without your supervisor's signature and a brief description of the emergency.
The voucher may be used for one non-stop trip from work to the emergency, your home, or vehicle.
When Can I Use the Voucher?
You can use the voucher if you have an:
- Accident, illness, or personal emergency
- Family member accident, illness, or personal emergency
- Carpool driver had to leave work for an emergency
- Unscheduled overtime
Why Should I Bother?
Using alternate modes of transportation:
- Reduces traffic congestion
- Reduces air pollution and global warming
- Saves you money
- Improves the health of individuals in our community
Pima County subsidizes employee bus passes, discounts parking for carpoolers at County lots, and provides bike lockers at a low rate.
About 60% of Tucson's air pollution comes from using motor vehicles. To help reduce air pollution, Pima County encourages employees to use alternate modes.
For more information and to register for the Guaranteed Ride Home Program, contact Karen Wilhelmsen, Transportation Coordinator for Pima County at 740-3345, karen.wilhelmsen@deq.pima.gov, or PDEQ 150 W. Congress Street.
Do your share for clean air!
Use alternate modes!
The Kids for Clean Air Club
The Kids for Clean Air Club is free and available to Pima County residents, ages 5-12. Members receive a packet filled with activity books and literature about air and other environmental issues, newsletters twice a year about different air issues, and a membership card to use at participating sponsors to save money.
There is no clubhouse to go to—it is in the child's imagination—and the packet and newsletters are mailed free of charge. The Club is operated by the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality's Clean Air Program. For more information, contact 740-3947 or click on www.deq.pima.gov/kids/CleanAirClub.html .
The Dirt on Dust Newsletter
This newsletter provides information to the construction industry and contractors throughout Pima County, including current airborne dust issues found with construction activity, regulations, and/or control methods to protect the health of our community and keep Pima County in compliance with national air quality health standards.
Written and distributed by the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality's Fugitive Dust Outreach & Education Program. Find more information about dust issues at www.deq.pima.gov/air/FugitiveDustProgram.htm or call 740-3345.
Back to the top
|
