Transportation Choices

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This page provides a summary of information on the San Luis Obispo County Transportation Choices Program. For more information, view the official TCP website.

There are many options for getting around town and going to work other than driving alone. Walking, biking, taking the bus, carpooling, vanpooling, skateboarding, and roller-blading are all forms of transportation.

What is the Transportation Choices Program?

The Transportation Choices Program (TCP) is a free program offered to businesses and organizations throughout San Luis Obispo County that choose to encourage employees to use of alternative transportation. The goal of the Transportation Choices Program is to provide employers with the tools they need to encourage a change in employee commuting habits.

As TCP partners, Ride-On, San Luis Obispo Regional Rideshare (SLO Rideshare) and the Air Pollution Control District (APCD), believe there is a need to change the ways we commute. A simple look to the Los Angeles areas illustrates how a huge highway infrastructure has done little to reduce or eliminate major traffic congestion. With your help we can preserve our air quality and minimize traffic congestion in SLO County.

Commuter Options: Services We Provide & Alternatives We Encourage

Transportation Choices Information Center: Access to information about transportation choices is essential to changing commute habits. The Transportation Choices Information Centers are a convenient way to get vanpool schedules, bus schedules and other transportation information. We provide you with all the materials needed for your Transportation Choices Information Center.

Vanpool, Carpool Matches: By working with Ride-On and SLO Rideshare, you can be matched with other commuters who live and work in similar locations. In many instances, you will carpool or vanpool with other individuals at your worksite, or neighboring worksites.

Bicycling or Walking to Work: Each person who chooses to ride a bicycle or walk to work will save a parking spot, leaving more parking available for your customers and clients. Having bicycle racks at your worksite sends a message of support to people who will ride their bikes to work.

Guaranteed Ride Home Program: This program offers insurance against being stranded. If you become sick or need to work overtime on a day you have carpooled, vanpooled or taken the bus, call Ride-On for a van pick up anytime before 7 p.m. For $4, you can get a ride home anywhere in San Luis Obispo County.

Mid-day Shuttles: Ride-On offers shuttle services in the City of San Luis Obispo. Door-to-door shuttles for running errands or medical appointments are $2 per trip. Lunchtime shuttles to 16 sponsoring restaurants in San Luis Obispo are free.

Rideshare Incentive Program: A Rideshare Incentive Program is a fun way to get rewarded for choosing to use alternative transportation to get to work. Once registered, you record the days you ride a bus, vanpool, carpool, ride a bike, or walk to work. Each day you don’t drive alone to work you earn “lucky bucks” that can then be turned into movie tickets, meals at restaurants, gift certificates to local stores, smoothies, stamps, car washes, and more.

Clean Car Awareness: To further reduce the air pollution from automobiles throughout SLO County, the APCD promotes clean driving habits and basic car maintenance to help cars operate cleaner. We also focus on new vehicle technologies, such as electric & hybrid vehicles. Incentives to purchase new clean cars are available through the APCD and state agencies. More

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