Twelve local organizations and seven individuals demonstrated extraordinary commitment and leadership in making wise use of our existing transportation resources in King County last year. The 2005 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.

Click on the 2005 Diamond Award winners at right for a look at the smart, effective commuting programs of these King County employers. Meet some of our region's outstanding employee transportation coordinators and learn more about how worksite programs make a difference. Thank you also to this year's Pacesetters—for their outstanding commute trip reduction efforts.

On May 4, 2006, the Diamond Award winners were announced at enterpriseSeattle's May Economic Update Breakfast, which also featured panelists who addressed the topic of transportation and housing. The breakfast was co-hosted by Commuter Challenge and enterpriseSeattle.

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 your organization can be a winner when it comes to employee commuting. Get ideas for implementing commuting programs at 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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