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Adobe Wins Award For Commuting Leadership

Tom McIntire with his electric bug; Craig Snyder, Adobe Employee Transportation Coordinator and bus/ferry/vanpool rider; John Cornicello, kayaker/bicyclist/walker; and Jeff Moran, bicyclist. Photo by Steve Schneider.

Jan 27, 1999 -- Fremont's Adobe Systems has been named one of 17 King County worksites winning a "Diamond Award" from Commuter Challenge for their efforts to reduce the number of employee commute trips. Seventy five per cent of the 500 people working at the new Fremont building, Avoid the one-car, one-driver, polluting mode of getting to work. Adobe provides bike racks, showers and lockers for those who bike walk or run to work, and FlexPasses, which subsidize 100 percent of transit and vanpool fares.

Some employees are going beyond the simple option of bus riding, however. Tom McIntire, a systems analyst, carpools to work every day in his electric Volkswagen Beetle. "I've had it about 4 1/2 years now," he says. Since the car recharges in the company garage, nobody has to chip in for gas.

Joe Cornicello, another systems analyst, chooses every morning whether to walk, bike or kayak to work from his houseboat on Lake Union. Usually, he ends up kayaking.

Commuter Challenge presents its Diamond Awards annually to King County employers with outstanding programs that reduce their employees' single-occupant-vehicle commute trips. Other local winners this year were Holland America Line Westours Inc. on Queen Anne, for telecommuting; Korry Electronics Co. on Lake Union, for ridesharing; WRQ on Lake Union, for non-motorized commuting; and Northwest Hospital in Northgate, for transit ridership.

To get more information about Commuter Challenge, call 389-8651.

For information about electric cars or electric bicycles, call Electric Vehicles Northwest at 762-4404.

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