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Ordinance
Mandatory program elements
The following information about program elements must be included in the Employer Program Report:
- Transportation Coordinator
- Name
- Location
- Telephone number
- Information distribution
- At least two times per year and at the time of hire
- Include alternatives to single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) commuting
- Include summary of program elements
- Additional program elements - at least two additional elements from the following list:
- Provide bicycle parking facilities, lockers, changing areas and showers for employees who walk or bike to work
- Provide commuter ride-matching services to facilitate employee ride-sharing vehicles
- Provide employer vans or third-party vans for vanpooling
- Provide subsidy for carpool and vanpool participation
- Permit the use of employer’s vehicles for carpool and/or vanpool commute trips
- Permit alternative work schedules such as a compressed work week that reduce commute trips by affected employees between 6:00 and 9:00 a.m. A compressed work week regularly allows a full-time employee to eliminate at least one work day every two weeks by working longer hours during their work days which results in fewer commute trips by the employee
- Permit alternative work schedules such as flex-time that reduce commute trips by affected employees between 6:00 and 9:00 a.m. Flex-time allows individual employees some flexibility in choosing the time, but not the number, of their working hours.
- Provide preferential parking for high-occupancy vehicles
- Cooperate with transportation providers to provide additional regular or express service to the work site (i.e. a custom bus service arranged specifically to transport employees to work)
- Construct special loading and unloading facilities for transit, carpool and vanpool users
- Provide and fund a program of parking incentives such as a cash payment for employee who do not use the parking facilities
- Institute or increase parking charges for SOVs
- Establish a program to permit employees to telework either part or full-time; where teleworking is an arrangement that permits an employee to work from home, eliminating a commute trip; or to work from a work center closer to home, reducing the distance traveled in a commute trip by at least half
- Provide a shuttle between the employer’s worksite and the closest park-and-ride lot, transit center, or principal transit street
- Implement other measures designed and demonstrated to facilitate the use of non-SOV commute modes which are agreed upon between the Director and the employee
Information distribution requirements
The following guidelines describe the minimum information distribution requirements.
- Worksite program summary information to all employees: To satisfy program summary information requirements and satisfy completion of program implementation, an employer must demonstrate that they have distributed:
- Two written pieces every year that summarizes all the approved program elements in your CTR program. One summary must be distributed to all affected employees employees within 60 days of program approval. The second piece must be distributed before your next report due date. In lieu of the distribution of a written program, your company could choose to distribute information electronically. Should you decide to use this method, please maintain a printed sample of this information in your files.
- Information about any new element to all affected employees as it is introduced.
- Provide information to employees at the time of hire: New employees must receive the written general program information piece at the time of hire.
If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact your Employer Transportation Representative for assistance.
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