What puts your business in the fast lane? Programs that speed productivity and accelerate bottom line growth set your business on a fast track... Diamond Award winning organizations reach their business goals by helping employees get to work in innovative ways. Their transportation programs are helping employees to

Commuter Challenge salutes the 1999 Diamond Award winners!
They really know how to move!

Click on the highlighted winners for a look at their commuting profiles and the stories behind the awards. Don't miss reading about the first inductees to Commuter Challenge's "Diamond Ring." The Diamond Ring was created to honor outstanding enterprises that demonstrate year after year their commitment to expanding already impressive programs to reduce commute trips. This year's winners were selected as winners of Diamond Awards on three other occasions.

Thanks to the Diamond Award winners for helping to support a thriving economy and build a better quality of life.

Diamond Award winners' fast-moving transportation programs improve bottom line results by helping them meet key business goals:

finding and keeping the best employees and expanding the labor pool of employee prospects increasing the workforce without investing in more office or production space reducing the need for employee parking saving money on taxes helping to reduce gridlock to speed employees' commutes, as well as the delivery of products and services creating a better quality of life for the Puget Sound Region by lessening the stress of commuting and contributing to a cleaner, healthier environment

The bottom line is this: transportation programs that win Diamond Awards make good business sense–and that keeps your business in the fast lane.

For more profiles of employers with outstanding employee commuting programs, you can still read about the 1998 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 1999 Pacesetters
They are on the road to success for 2000 with their programs to reduce employee commute trips.

* 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.

Active Voice Corporation

Adobe Systems

Aim Aviation, Inc

AirTouch Cellular

ALSTOM ESCA Corporation

Associated Grocers, Inc.

AT&T Broadband & Internet Services

AT&T Wireless Services

Attachmate Corporation

Bank of America

Boeing Employees' Credit Union

Boston Scientific Corporation Northwest Technology Center

CB Richard Ellis *

The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies *

City of Bellevue

City of Kirkland

City of Redmond

City of Seattle

click2learn.com

The Cobalt Group, Inc. *

CRISTA Ministries

Economic Development Council of Seattle & King County *

EDAW, Inc. *

Federal Detention Center SeaTac

Fisher Broadcasting, Inc

Flow International Corporation

G E Financial Assurance

GM Nameplate, Inc.

Green River Community College

Group Health Cooperative

Hart Crowser, Inc

Highline Community College

Highline Community Hospital

IDD Aerospace

Kenworth Truck Company

KeyBank NA

King Broadcasting Company

King County Government

MacDonald-Miller *

Metrocall, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Multiple Zones International, Inc.

Nintendo of America Inc.

North Seattle Community College

Northwest Administrators, Inc.

Northwest Hospital

Overlake Hospital Medical Center

PACCAR Information Technology Division

Paccar Parts

PacifiCare of Washington

PacMed Clinics

PathoGenesis Corporation

Pemco Financial Center

Pepsi Bottling Group

The Polyclinic

Port of Seattle

Princess Tours

Providence Seattle Medical Center

Publicis

Puget Sound Clean Air Agency *

Puget Sound Energy

Puget Sound Regional Council *

R.W. Beck, Inc.

Recreational Equipment, Inc.

Regence BlueShield

Reliance Insurance Company

Seafreeze Cold Storage & Seafood

Seattle Bulk Mail Center Federal Way

Seattle Central Community College

Seattle Pacific University

The Seattle Times

Seattle University

South Seattle Community College

Starbucks Coffee Company

Starwave

State of Washington DSHS Holgate CSO

St. Francis Hospital

Swedish Medical Center

Unico Properties, Inc. *

United Advertising Publications

United Airlines

University of Washington

U.S. Government 70th US Army Reserve Command

U.S. Government Federal Aviation Administration

U.S. Government General Services Administration

UW Physicians

Virginia Mason Medical Center

The Warm Company *

Washington Mutual Savings Bank

Washington State Attorney General's Office

Wells Fargo Bank

Weyerhaeuser

Wright Runstad & Company *

World Vision

WRQ, Inc.