Pierce Trips Announces Best Commuter Businesses of 2019

Having a smart transportation program at your worksite is a benefit to employees, which allows employers to attract and retain top talent, expand labor pools, reduce parking demand, and demonstrates environmental responsibility. A transportation program can include a variety of elements such as forming carpools, providing bus passes, subsidizing vanpooling, encouraging teleworking and compressed work weeks.

In early 2019, Pierce Trips announced the new Best Commuter Business leadership program to recognize partnering employers’ efforts toward increasing smart transportation commutes to their worksite. Throughout 2019, employers were evaluated and scored on their transportation program elements, engagement and performance.

Today, Pierce Trips is excited to announce this year’s Best Commuter Businesses of Pierce County. Employers who earned a Gold, Silver or Bronze level recognition will receive an expansive marketing package to promote their designation internally along with online and print advertising to promote to the general public throughout 2020.

The following employers have demonstrated that they are committed to sustainability, promote the health of our communities, and foster economic vitality through smart transportation programs:

EMPLOYER / WORKSITE	LOCATION	STANDING
BNY Mellon	Tacoma	Bronze
CHI Franciscan - Franciscan Medical Group	Tacoma	Silver
CHI Franciscan - Service Center	Tacoma	Silver
CHI Franciscan - St. Joseph Medical Center	Tacoma	Silver
CHI Franciscan - St. Anthony Hospital	Gig Harbor	Bronze
CHI Franciscan - St. Clare Hospital	Lakewood	Bronze
City of DuPont	DuPont	Bronze
City of Puyallup	Puyallup	Bronze
City of Sumner	Sumner	Bronze
City of Tacoma - Municipal Building	Tacoma	Bronze
Clover Park Technical College	Lakewood	Bronze
Columbia Bank	Tacoma	Silver
DaVita	Tacoma	Bronze
Department of Social and Health Services - Child Treatment and Study Center	Lakewood	Bronze
Joint Base Lewis-McChord	JBLM	Silver
Kaiser Permanente	Tacoma	Silver
Pacific Lutheran University	Tacoma	Bronze
Pierce County - Annex	Tacoma	Bronze
Pierce County - Central Maintenance Facility	Spanaway	Bronze
Pierce County - Downtown Campus	Tacoma	Bronze
Pierce County - Environmental Services / Wastewater Treatment Plant	Tacoma	Bronze
Pierce County - Human Services	Tacoma	Bronze
Pierce County - Tacoma Mall Campus	Tacoma	Bronze
Pierce Transit	Lakewood	Silver
Propel Insurance	Tacoma	Silver
Tacoma Community College	Tacoma	Bronze
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department	Tacoma	Bronze
The Boeing Company – Frederickson	Spanaway	Bronze

To be considered for next year’s Best Commuter Business ranking, employers need to be active partners with Pierce Trips. Pierce Trips works across local jurisdictions, employers, and schools to develop transportation demand management solutions through programming and marketing strategies. 

Contact us and join dozens of Pierce County businesses transforming their communities by creating more smart transportation-friendly workplaces. Partnering with Pierce Trips is a free resource to employers.

For more information about the Best Commuter Business program, visit PierceTrips.com/BCB.

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Pierce Trips is a collaboration between Pierce County, Pierce Transit and the City of Tacoma. Pierce Trips focuses on fostering partnerships between local governments, transit, employers and schools in Pierce County to promote transportation by carpooling, vanpooling, riding the bus or train, walking, bicycling, working a compressed work week schedule or teleworking.