{"id":25092,"date":"2017-04-05T12:54:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145710.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:54:24","slug":"paying-employees-not-drive-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/paying-employees-not-drive-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Employees To Not Drive In Washington, DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Donald Shoup<\/a> pointed out many years ago that if companies pay\u00a0the costs of parking for their employees, a common fringe benefit (and an expensive one, at that), those employers are essentially giving \u201can invitation to drive to work alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shoup continues to explain that it is time to level the playing field\u00a0and has been\u00a0promoting a policy called \u201cparking cash out\u201d for over a decade. The\u00a0good news is a new DC bill titled “Transportation Benefits Equity Act<\/a>”\u00a0includes just this, as The Washington Post<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

In a 2005 report for the American Planning Association [PDF<\/a>],\u00a0Shoup explains: “Free parking thus helps explain why 91 percent of commuters drive to work and why 93 percent of their vehicles have only one occupant.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Washington, DC, councilmembers Charles Allen, Mary Cheh, and Brianne Nadeau\u00a0introduced the new bill\u00a0to try to stimulate\u00a0healthier urban choices and reward those who make such choices, which benefit broader society.<\/p>\n

The Wash Cycle<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>reports that the bill they introduced will “pay a lot of DC workers to bike<\/a> or walk<\/a>\u00a0to work,” which “would make commuter benefits fairer, but more importantly, smarter in that they would reduce pollution and congestion; improve land use and health; and make roads safer.”<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>focuses on the issue at the heart — fairness of choice.\u00a0\u201cI can much more easily rationalize hopping in my car and driving downtown when I got a free parking spot,\u201d said Council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), a lead sponsor of the bill. \u201cBut if my employer says, we are going to give you a parking spot or we can give you transit benefits or cash if you bike to work, then I have the flexibility to make the choice that is best for me.\u201d The change, he said, would address a fairness issue for the workers who sometimes turn down a valuable perk because they don\u2019t drive.<\/p>\n

Along with this, perhaps it is time to introduce a bill that requires all\u00a0parking\u00a0lots<\/a> to be covered by\u00a0solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Images via Parking Cash Out [PDF]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Donald Shoup pointed out many years ago that if companies pay\u00a0the costs of parking for their employees, a common fringe benefit (and an expensive one, at that), those employers are essentially giving \u201can invitation to drive to work alone.\u201d Shoup continues to explain that it is time to level the playing field\u00a0and has been\u00a0promoting a …<\/p>\n

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