One Day A Week
Save the planet in just one day a week.
When you chose to car pool or work remote even one day a week you will be making a difference in air quality, reducing stress, and saving money.
Local governments, communities, and businesses, all benefit from improving our region by one day a week.
Here's how...
What is Try Parking It?
Try Parking It is your resource (web page/mobile app) for finding greener travel options like carpool, vanpool, and transit in North Central Texas. Telecommute from home, bike to a friend's house, take transit, or carpool with other Try Parking It members.
Whatever you do - just don't drive alone.
Think saving trips is hard? Try Parking It makes it easy!
You can track your trips from our app or our website, including your biking, walking, and telecommuting efforts. Record your greener trips in your Try Parking It account and track the money you save, the emissions you prevent, and earn Try Parking It points. You can redeem your points for restaurant coupons, retailer discounts, and tickets to shows & attractions. It's free and easy to do, so join today.
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How does "Try Parking It," work for...
- Studies have shown that remote work and less commuting results in happier employees, and happier employees are more productive. Implementing carpooling and remote work options can help boost productivity in the workplace.
- Reducing DRIVE ALONE trips can help save your company money managing workspaces, parking, and the bills that come with them, and the stress of an office environment.
- Gauging your employees’ interest in carpooling and remote work can be as simple as a company survey or a conversation at the end of a meeting. Finding out what works best for your workforce is the first step toward helping the environment.
- Nobody likes traffic, especially employees, and reducing DRIVE ALONE trips can help reduce workplace stress associated with commuting. Gauge your employees’ interest to see how a reduced commuting plan might affect them.
- Companies that work with employee schedules and offer remote work are more attractive to the public. Implementing a reduced DRIVE ALONE policy may help improve your company outlook.
- One day a week of remote work or carpooling will show your community a commitment to a cleaner and greener future. Reducing single occupancy trips through policy is the first step.
- Enhancing local commuting options in areas that need them can reduce the need for DRIVE ALONE trips, keeping the air your community breathes cleaner, and your community happier.
- Using land efficiently is an important part of regional planning and reducing the number of trips you make mean better use of parking spaces. Reduced DRIVE ALONE policies can help free up land for use where it’s needed most.
- By implementing reduced DRIVE ALONE policies, government programs may extend eligilbe tax credits or regional funding for public transit options. Check with your local transit and government to find out what your organization/company may be eligible for.
- Reducing required DRIVE ALONE trips is an environmentally friendly policy/step you can take to show your community you care about building a better future.
- Carpooling and public transit can save you time, money, and stress. You don’t have to worry about sitting in traffic wasting your own gas for 45 minutes as often when you’re reducing your single occupancy vehicle trips.
- Reducing single occupancy trips can save you time and money. Drop the stress of the morning commute and take public transit or work from home if able. Talk to your employer about options today.
- Reducing your DRIVE ALONE trips helps keep the air you and other North Texans breath cleaner, and the environment greener. You can even be rewarded for logging your carpools and virtual commutes with Try Parking It!
- You will make a difference to all those around you by saving time, money, and reducing stress. Carpooling is a great way to build new relationships and strengthen work morale while saving the environment. Your telecommuting and remoting work efforts produces results!
- If are ready to make the change and you’d like to talk about how to reduce DRIVE ALONE trips with your employer, we’ve compiled a list of benefits for you to discuss: less office space use, less parking use, less cost managing space, etc.
- Talking to your employer about reducing your DRIVE ALONE trips doesn’t have to be scary, because it benefits them too! Carpooling and remote work could benefit them in the long run by providing more funding opportunities and a happier workforce.
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