What better time to consider your commute options than when the days get colder and hours of sunlight grow shorter? When the day is icy, a bus or train is already preheated for your comfort! When it's dark outside when you leave the office, a carpool buddy makes the trip home a little brighter. Even better, a van full of friends to help you shake off the day and arrive at home feeling more cheerful. Let help us you find friends to ride with and transit trips at mywaytogo.org.
It's been a great summer, and we don't want to rush things, but...we *are* already looking forward to fall and the 2018 Go-Tober Challenge! The challenge involves getting businesses across the metro area to encourage their employees to try a different way of getting to work at least once a week during the month of October. Take a carpool, start a vanpool, bus, bike...we've even seen people who rode their horse to work during Go-Tober! It's fun and friendly, and a great way to look a different way of commuting.
Back to school doesn't have to mean back to traffic this year. Let Schoolpool help you find or form a carpool with other families in your area. Our award-winning Schoolpool program uses a secure online platform to match campus families for carpooling or walk and bike buddies. Share the responsibility of getting kids to and from school, cut down on drop-off and pickup traffic and enjoy a bit more flexibility. Introduce the next generation of commuters to sustainable transportation!
Residents in the metro area enjoyed a greener two-wheeled commute as an estimated 35,277 riders traveled 623,705 miles – or 25 times around planet Earth -- on Wednesday, June 27 for the region’s Bike to Work Day.
The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) recognized four Way to Go Champions during DRCOG’s annual awards celebration. Way to Go Champions are individuals or organizations that demonstrate leadership in promoting or advocating commute options other than driving alone.
Our trip planning and tracking partner, RideAmigos, has launched a new app to make tracking your commute trips even easier. Download the app and let it handle automatic trip tracking for you.
Thank you to all the artists who submitted artwork for the 2018 Colorado Bike Month/Bike to Work Day poster! We got a lot of great submissions, and we're looking forward to sharing the selected artwork with all of you soon: watch this space!
DRCOG's GIS team has once again used origin and destination data from registered Bike to Work Day participants to create a chord map showing the density of trips to and from various locations: check it out.
The Colorado Department of Transportation has increased the number of passengers required to use High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Express Lanes. Known as HOV 3+, the change began Jan. 1 and requires a driver and at least two passengers to qualify for free carpooling in the U.S. 36 and I-25 Express Lanes. Are you a carpooler looking to add a third passenger? Are you interested in forming or joining a vanpool? We make it simple on MyWaytoGo.org. Log in and search along your route to find a fellow commuter.
