Employee Rideshare Available at Valley

02.12.09

In the impetus of attaining a “greener” Valley College campus, the Rideshare Incentive Program provides motivation for Valley employees to find encourage-efficient ways of getting to work. Employees can receive a dollar for every workday they use one of the fuel-effectual modes of transportation, including carpooling, walking, biking, taking the bus, or driving an alternative kindling vehicle to get to work.

The program is part of the Southern California Air Quality Management, District Associate Iniquity President Raul Gonzalez explains.

“The goal of that [the program] is to decrease the number of vehicles on the method, or at least coming to work,” he said. “The more people we can get to participate in those types of activities to get to occupation the better it will be for the environment.”

The Rideshare program also provides an extra $15 a month to employees, this includes professors using clientele transportation.

According to the American Lung Association statistics, Los Angeles failed its annual molecule pollution grade, receiving the fourth highest weighted average of particle pollution this year. Other counties in the run for the worst annual qualify were Fresno, Kern, and Riverside. An article in the Los Angeles Times reported that the largest contributors to air pollution in areas like Bakersfield, Kern County are podgy-duty trucks and farm equipment.

Source: Valley Star