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Expanding transportation choices

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Metro works to improve air quality, reduce car traffic and create more opportunities for walking, biking, taking transit and carpooling.

Metro's Regional Travel Options program works closely with public agencies and businesses to promote and support travel options to help cut vehicle emissions, decrease congestion and create a healthier community.

The program is guided by a five-year strategic plan developed in partnership with program stakeholders. The plan is available to download below.

2010 program accomplishments

In 2010, the Regional Travel Options Program:

• helped save 1,442,000 gallons of gas by promoting alternatives to driving alone
• launched the new, eighth edition Bike There! map, and gave away more than 500 free paper Bike There! maps to local non-profits
• achieved an annual conservative estimate of 18.9 million vehicle miles reduced throughout the region
• helped one-quarter of the region’s workforce find information and incentives for commute options
• awarded $533,000 in grants for projects to improve air quality and address community health issues
• helped launch the new Gresham Civic Drive MAX station
• received a $75,000 grant from Kaiser Permanente to create biking and walking maps of Hillsboro, Cornelius and Forest Grove
• sold more than 7,500 Walk There! books and distributed more than 4,000 books for incentives.
• won multiple awards for the Bike There! and Walk There! programs
• eased congestion and increased mobility with the vanpool program and CarpoolMatchNW.com.

Know your options

Explore tools to help you walk, bike, carpool and take transit
Visit Drive Less/Save More for tips and tools to help you drive less

Program partners

• C-TRAN
• City of Gresham
• City of Portland Transportation Options
• City of Vancouver
• Clackamas County
• Gresham Regional Center TMA
• Lloyd District TMA
• Multnomah County
• Oregon Department of Energy
• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
• ODOT
• Port of Portland
• SMART (Wilsonville)
• South Waterfront Venture (TMA)
• Swan Island TMA
• Transportation management associations (TMAs)
• TriMet
• Washington County
• Westside Transportation Alliance

Related Documents

• Summary of Regional Travel Options 223K Adobe Acrobat PDF
• Regional Travel Options 2008-2013 Strategic Plan 4.1M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published March 20, 2008
• Appendices Regional Travel Options 2008-2013 Strategic Plan 167K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published March 20, 2008