Avoiding Rush Hour
By John Addison (
Now you can save $1,000 per year, reduce stress and improve your health. How? Never face rush hour alone. Increasingly people are using one or more approaches to avoiding lost hours in gridlock: participating in flexible work, using the HOV lane, riding public transit, and walking. AAA determined that many drivers spend about $8,000 driving their vehicle. Save a $1,000 of that by using one of these strategies.
In the Oil and Coal Age, everyone drove solo during gridlock hours to their one work location to toil over their designated machine. Now people are most effective working some days at one location, other times at home, others at a customer or supplier locations. We can take advantage of the new flexible workplace solutions to annually save hundreds of wasted hours, thousands of gallons of wasted gas, and pocket thousands of dollars. Hewlett Packard saves over 2 million round-trip commutes for its North American employees with an effective Telework program. Info tech meets cleantech.
The semiconductor chips in your computers, electronic games and mobile devices are likely to be made with equipment from Applied Materials. Their program, "Applied Anywhere," addresses their global business environment and provides agility to be closer to the customer as well as supporting the needs of many employees who perform some or their entire job outside the traditional office place. The program “Applied Anywhere” supports eligible employees that at different times may need to work from one of several corporate offices, at home, at an airport, or at a customer site.
Investigate your employer’s flexible work program or simply spend the next rush hour working at home
It is a joy to sail past gridlock traffic in the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane. HOV lanes have been a major success in encouraging people to save gas and ride together. A common requirement is that the lane only be used by vehicles with two or more passengers during designated rush hours. It is easy to join a carpool. See if there is one organized at work, or go to your favorite Internet site and type “carpool” and your zip code.
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Enjoy a long life. Walk an extra mile each day to improve your health and burn extra calories. You will also help the environment. Next time you are stuck waiting for a parking place, considering parking the car, turning off that engine spewing emissions and walking.
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Ellen De Generes quipped, “My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today, and we don’t know where the heck she is.”
John Addison is the author of the upcoming book Save Gas, Save the Planet and publishes the Clean Fleet Report. This article is copyright John Addison with permission to publish or excerpt with attribution. A related article about Flexible Work and Cool Commutes is at the Clean Fleet Report.
Labels: cleantech, Cleantech Blog, cool commutes, energy, flexible work, green tech, greentech, transit, urban development
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posted by John Addison @ 7:28 AM
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In the SF Bay area, promote and explain what www.511.org and the phone service 511.
Without these, inter region public transportation "route and schedule discovery" is impenetrable, but with 511.org magic trip plans are readily available for just about any destination.
Too Few folks know enough about the magical convenience of 511.org
I might suggest to 511.org that the irony of trapped ad viewers might be found in parked commuter audiences on any major highways in the Bay Area. Simply hanging huge banner ads from highway overpasses say into Silicon Valley, explaining what 511.org does in a succinct manner on a catchy banner might boost ridership among the less informed, but frustrated drivers.
You forgot to mention bicycling :-)
I'm always amazed when I mention 511 (the phone and web service) to my fellow commuters and they don't know what I'm talking about.
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