I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.
While getting feedback from our paid intern’s experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.
Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn’t they get all the help they need? They’re young, they have a busy life and they’re trying their best.
But my coworker (who drives) said, “Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over.”
Now my internal “Fuck Cars” position is battling with my “Give the Interns everything”.
I’m not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.
Both have been said, but just to reinforce: I think a combination of an information campaign (send an email, put up a sign in the break room) about local transit options and maybe some subsidy for transit could solve the problem.
I know around me a lot of companies provide employees with a regional transit pass.
When I was an intern and first moved to the city, all I had ever known was driving to get everywhere. The suburb I grew up in didn’t have any public transit other than school buses.
I think for a lot of Americans (making an assumption here), they don’t even consider modes other than driving. Maybe as part of orientation you can explain the public transit options available.
That’s a really good idea! I’ll float that to the trainer.
Better outcome: people being compensated for greener/healthier commuting. Walk, you young MFers!
Yeah, free transit passes is a good push in the right direction.
They prolly live in suburbs because of crime in the city… So public transit is too high risk for these elites
Not necessarily even that. It used to take me 24 minutes to drive to work and over two hours to take a bus. It’s not reasonable to ask someone to add an extra four hours to their shift imo
