GDOT Honors Roswell School For Efforts To Promote 'Clean Community'

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The Georgia Department of Transportation and Georgia Commute Options presented the Georgia Commute Honors to recognize employers and commuters who have made superior efforts to promote clean commuting over the past year.

The term “clean commuting” refers to carpooling, vanpooling, taking public transit, teleworking, working a compressed work week, walking or biking to work — all actions that decrease the number of cars on our region’s roadways.

Georgia Commute Options provides incentives to commuters who use these alternatives and partners with employers and property managers to offer those incentives to their employees and tenants on a large scale. The Georgia Commute Honors program recognized efforts within a range of categories covering the various levels of participation in the program.

“We’re all working together to make traveling through metro Atlanta faster, safer and cleaner,” says Georgia DOT Commissioner Russell McMurry. “By recognizing these outstanding partners, we hope to encourage other area employers to follow suit and help our region see reduced traffic and cleaner air, long-term.”

Awards were presented in several categories by various members of metro Atlanta’s transportation community. The list of presenters included Georgia DOT Commissioner Russell McMurry, MARTA CEO Keith Parker, GRTA/SRTA Executive Director Chris Tomlinson, ARC Director of Center for Livable Communities Jane Hayse and Manager of Outreach for the Cumberland Community Improvement District Kara Cooper.

The list of honorees is as follows:

Best Overall Program (Recognizing Employers and Property Managers taking creative measures to offer Georgia Commute Options incentives to their employees/tenants)

· Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

· TSW Design

· U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

· Cousins at Terminus

Georgia DOT Leadership Award (Recognizing an individual making outstanding efforts within his/her workplace to promote clean commuting through Georgia Commute Options)

· Karen Mathews, WellStar Health System

Rising Star (Recognizing one new employer partner and one individual who have made promising early efforts in promoting clean commuting through Georgia Commute Options)

· PulteGroup

· Amber Weaver, DeKalb County government

Road Warrior (Recognizing individuals who regularly practice and advocate clean commuting with Georgia Commute Options)

· Murray Browne, Turner Broadcasting

· Debbie Caldwell, Fiserv

· Alex Fite-Wassilak, TSW Design

· Dave Oden, Delta Air Lines

Ride and Shine Outstanding Schools (Area schools that have made creative efforts in school transportation that reduce traffic and improve air quality in their school zones)

· Blessed Trinity Catholic High School

· Cristo Rey Jesuit High School

Georgia Commute Options, a program funded by the Georgia Department of Transportation, helps commuters, employers and property managers take advantage of alternatives to driving alone to and from work. Georgia Commute Options reports that every day in metro Atlanta, the use of commute alternatives such as carpooling and transit results in 1.1 million vehicle miles not traveled and 550 tons of pollution kept out of the air.

For more information, visit www.GaCommuteOptions.com.