Nine local organizations and four individuals demonstrated extraordinary commitment and leadership in making wise use of our existing transportation resources in King County last year. The 2004 Diamond Award winners kept our traffic moving by motivating their employees to ride or drive with someone else, take the bus, ride a bike, walk, telework, or compress their workweeks (see ideas for your worksite) .

Click on the 2004 Diamond Award and Diamond Ring winners at right for a look at the smart, effective commuting programs of these King County employers, and watch our short video. Thank you also to this year's Pacesetters—for their outstanding commute trip reduction efforts.

In his February 17, 2005 keynote address at the Diamond Awards breakfast, King County Executive Ron Sims congratulated the winners for their vision. Regional mobility is critical for a strong economy and an exceptional quality of life. Businesses prosper when employees, customers, freight, and support services travel with ease on our streets and highways. And people in our communities going about their daily lives benefit in countless ways when traffic flows smoothly.
Programs that reduce employee commute trips not only make our region a better place to live, but also make good business sense by providing:

Through the efforts of the Diamond Award-winning organizations and individuals, we all benefit from fewer cars on our roads, a cleaner environment, and a compelling vision of what we can accomplish by working together.
Find out how to be a winner and get ideas for your worksite.

Did you know?
Worksites that participate in the Commute Trip Reduction program remove more than 19,000 vehicles off of Washington state's roads each day, 13,480 trips in the Puget Sound region alone. Since the Commute Trip Reduction law took effect in 1993, the drive-alone rate has declined by nearly 10 percent at worksites in the CTR program, from 69.7 percent in 1993 to 62.8 percent in 2003! (2003 is the most recent year for which data is available.)

 

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