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Your one-stop center for Pierce County transportation options
WHO WE ARE
Our mission at Ride Together Pierce is to champion the use of sustainable transportation options amongst residents, businesses, commuters and day trippers alike in Pierce County.
Through a host of support services and programs that help businesses implement commuter programs and make sustainable transportation options easy for riders to access, we strive to assist the community with their traveling needs. As a result, we help Pierce County lower carbon emissions, reduce traffic congestion and benefit from the many types of transportation services available.
WHAT WE DO
We help people and businesses in and around Pierce County learn about the transportation options they have available to them and equip them with the tools and resources to make sustainable traveling choices.
For Employers
Several employer services and programs are in place to help employers develop and implement their commute options programs. Our employer services and programs:
- Program development and analysis assistance*
- Employee Transportation Coordinator training*
- Employer network opportunities
- ORCA product assistance
- Survey assistance*
- Staffing at worksite transportation fairs*
- Vanpool formation assistance
- Marketing materials such as posters and brochures*
- Online library of materials*
- ZIP Code maps*
- Trip calendar for online ridematching and trip planning
- Countywide and statewide campaigns, see eligibility criteria for each campaign
- HOV parking signs and hang tags*
- Commuter Information Centers*
- Emergency Ride Home
- Quarterly and Annual Employer recognition*
For Residents
Several commuter and traveler services and programs are in place to help commuters and travelers learn about and use travel options such as walking, bicycling, riding the bus or train, car or vanpooling, working from home (telework) and working a compressed work week schedule.
- Vanpool formation assistance
- Emergency Ride Home
- Trip Calendar for online ridematching and trip planning
- Monthly Trip Calendar Prize Drawings, encouraging trip calendar users to take and log sustainable trips year-round*
- Bike Everywhere Challenge, promoting biking as a mode of transportation*
- Switch Your Trips Campaign, promoting sustainable modes of transportation*
- First Time User Guides, to help you easily navigate sustainable transport options for the first time
- Resources to help you plan and save on your commute
- Travel Modes info, connecting you to all the ways to get around Tacoma and the surrounding areas using sustainable transportation modes
*See eligibility criteria for each challenge.
This website is funded by a Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement grant.