Are you missing something?

Diamond Award winners aren't.

This year's Diamond Award winners aren't missing a thing–including the trophy.

Diamond Awards
Diamond Award winners are leaders that don't miss a thing. For example, they know both a strong economy and a healthy bottom line depend on our ability to keep traffic moving.

That's why they offer transportation programs that motivate employees to take the bus, ride or drive with a friend, walk, or ride their bicycles. Or to choose options such as working from home or compressed work schedules.

Click on the highlighted winners for a look at their commuting profiles and the stories behind the awards–or learn about the benefits for your business of programs to reduce employee commute trips.

Leadership
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Van Waters & Rogers Inc.
Weyerhaeuser Company

Progress
Trendwest Resorts Inc.

Voluntary
Puget Sound Regional Council

Compressed Workweeks
Precor Inc.

Telework
Holland America Line Westours Inc.

Ridesharing
Federal Detention Center SeaTac
Kenworth Truck Company
Korry Electronics Company
Microsoft Corporation, Corporate Campus
REI

Transit
Nintendo of America Inc.
Northwest Hospital

Non-Motorized
WRQ, Inc.

Parking Management
PacifiCare of Washington
South Seattle Community College


Through their efforts, Diamond Award winners:

  • help ensure the movement of people and frieght,
  • attract and keep the best employees
  • save money on parking and office space,
  • reduce the stress of commuting, and...
  • contribute to a cleaner world.

For more profiles of employers with outstanding employee commuting programs, you can still read about the 1997 Diamond Award winners.

To find out more about King County's award winning programs–and how your organization could become a Diamond Award winner–call Commuter Challenge, 206.389.8650.


And congratulations to the 1998 Commuter Challenge
"Pacesetters"
that round out Commuter Challenge's list
of "Top 100" King County worksites:

* Denotes organizations not affected by the Washington State Commute Trip Reduction Law but which have voluntarily made commitments to reducing commute trips to their worksites.

AAA Washington

Aetna US Healthcare of Washington Inc.

Acordia Northwest, Inc.

AlliedSignal Inc.

AMS Services, Inc.

Applied Microsystems Corporation

Associated Grocers Inc.

Attachmate Corporation

The Boeing Company

Boeing Employees' Credit Union

Bogle & Gates

The Bon Marché

Boston Scientific Corp. Northwest Technology Center

Capital Industries Inc.

CH2M HILL

Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center

Chubb Group*

City of Bellevue

City of Federal Way

City of Kirkland

City of Mercer Island

City of Redmond

City of Renton

City of Seattle

ConneXt

Crista Ministries Inc.

Deluxe Payment Protection Systems

Economic Development Council of Seattle & King County*

Federal Aviation Administration

Flow International Corporation

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

GE Capital Corporation

GM Nameplate Inc.

Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce*

Green River Community College

Group Health Cooperative

Harborview Medical Center

Hewlett-Packard Company

Immunex Corporation

Interpoint Corporation

Kenworth Truck Company

King County

Metrocall

Microsoft

Mosaix

North Seattle Community College

Overlake Hospital Medical Center

Paccar Automotive Inc

PACCAR Inc

PacMed Clinics

Pepsi Cola Company

Port of Seattle

Primex Aerospace

Providence Seattle Medical Center

Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency*

Puget Sound Energy

RealNetworks

Red Dot Corporation

Regence BlueShield

Romac Industries

SAFECO Corporation

Seafirst Bank

Seattle Central Community College

Seattle Housing Authority

Seattle Pacific University

The Seattle Times

Skills Inc.*

Starbucks Coffee Company

Swedish Medical Center

Symonds Consulting Engineers*

United Advertising Publications, Inc.

University of Washington

USAA Property And Casualty Insurance

U.S. Bank of Washington

U.S. Army Reserve 70th Regional Support Command

U.S. General Services Administration

UW Physicians

Valley Medical Center

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Visio Corporation

Volt Services Group Computer, Engineering, & Technical Division

Washington Dental Service

Washington State Department of Transportation

Washington State Rainier DSHS CSO

Western Wireless Corporation


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