Commute Options Blog
Green Commutes
The Environmental Center’s Green Drinks is going for a ride! Join us all day on Thursday, October 1st for Green Commutes and enter to win prizes! We’ll be providing resources and fun tips all day about getting around Central Oregon by foot, mobility device, bike,...
Transportation Tuesday: September 29th
Reasonable Suspicion Training: “Reasonable Suspicion Training” is intended for transit system employees that are responsible for compliance with FTA Drug and Alcohol Testing Program regulations. The training will focus on the physical, behavioral, speech, and...
New Vanpool Program
Commute Options has partnered with Cascades East Transit and Commute with Enterprise to start new vanpools into and out of Deschutes County in 2020. Vanpooling offers benefits to your business and your employees. A van makes it easy for your employees to share a ride...
Commuter Kickbacks and Telework Perks Challenge!
Starting September 21, Commuter Kickbacks meets Telework Perks for a special challenge, celebrating teleworkers and essential workers alike! Whether you’re continuing or returning to your smart, safe commute or you’re working from home, sometimes or all the time -...
Walk and Roll Education Menu
We want to know how we can help! We are busy planning for the 2020-2021 school year. The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is pivoting alongside school administrators to offer lesson plans to teachers across Central Oregon. We have created a menu of options for our...
Oregon Friendly Driver Course Announcement!
Oregon Friendly Driver class is now available online! Commute Options offers a free 75-minute course to educate people who drive, about the best and safest ways to use the road with people walking or riding bikes. Historically, we traveled to worksites and classrooms...
Rethinking the Right of Way
Necessity is the mother of invention, and the Downtown Bend Business Association is helping Bend small businesses chart a new way forward during the Coronavirus pandemic. Central Oregon faces a dilemma over the Coronavirus pandemic. Reopening our businesses seems to...
Get the whole family moving with the Walk and Roll Challenge
Get the Whole Family Moving with the Walk and Roll Challenge Tune into Commute Options social media this June for activities that will get you and your household moving and help to teach your young ones about navigating streets, intersections, and neighborhoods. You...
Cascades East Transit announcing changes in service and access
Cascades East Transit is rolling out new service between La Pine and Sunriver—and will begin running more often during the weekday schedules for Bend and Community Connector routes. More buses more often along CET routes allows more options for physical distancing....
TeleworkPerks is back! June 1-12, 2020
With the Phase 1 opening of businesses in Oregon, many of our partners are heading back into the office, restaurant, and retail shop. If you are still working from home, we have our next #teleworkperks challenge, June 1-12. Register today at Get There. Just log your...