Your chance to try less car-dependent ways to get to school, work, or to run errands on June 1st, and win prizes!
Why?
Jefferson County Greenhouse Gas Emissions – 2018
The City/County Climate Action Committee (CAC) updated its greenhouse gas inventory recently and found that transportation emissions are 66% of our community emissions. The CAC has identified reducing miles driven in single occupancy vehicles to be a key solution to reduce these emissions, and doing so will take all of us! The Car Free Day is an opportunity to try something new, and have the opportunity to win prizes!
What are Some Alternative Ways to Get To Work/School/Etc.?
Here are some ways to consider. And with many of these, you will discover added benefits – more exercise, meeting new people, etc.
Carpool with a fellow employee or student. Does someone you work with or go to school with commute along the same route you do? Even carpooling for part of a drive can help reduce our community’s miles driven.
Try Transit! Check out Jefferson Transit‘s schedules to explore how you can get where you need to go. Jefferson Transit has also created a new point to point schedule which lists stops throughout the Tri-Area and Port Townsend to assist with trip planning. You can also view your transit options by going to google maps and putting in your start and end location and time.
Bike or Walk to work. Have you been wanting to try biking or walking to school or work, to to run your errands? Now is your chance! You can find a variety of great bike resources and walk maps on jeffersoncan.org.
Skip the Trip! Can you telecommute so a trip is eliminated? That counts too!
Prizes
All who participate (see right column for how to participate), will be entered into a drawing for prizes. The prizes kindly donated to this event include:
6 Passes to Port Townsend Marine Science Center
Gift Certificate to La Cocina Port Townsend
2 Gift Bags from Silverwater Cafe
Finnriver Gift Bag with Cider, Stemware and Wines (must be over 21 to win!)
Quimper Mercantile Gift Certificates
Recyclery Gift Certificate for Free Basic Tune-up
Movie theater passes and ice cream gift certificates from an anonymous donor
Dinner Certificate to Spirits Bar and Grill at the Old Alcohol Plant
Jefferson Transit Goodie Bags
Port Townsend Food Coop Hat and Thermos
Free Bike Tuneup from Bulldog Bicycles
Jefferson PUD Goodie Bags
Friendly Competitions
Besides the raffle for prizes, a few of our local organizations are challenging each other to see who has greatest percentage of employees/students participate, and who has the greatest reduction in emissions (scaled based on the number of employees)! The City of Port Townsend will challenge Jefferson County employees, and a competition between schools is pending.
How to Participate
Participating is easy – on June 1st, commute (to work, school, errand running) in any way other than in a car alone (some driving, like to a Park and Ride, is ok, as is carpooling), using some of the options above, or maybe you have another way! Anything other than driving the whole way in a car by yourself counts. So if you carpool with a friend in your car, you and your friend can both enter! (For students, having a parent drive you to school doesn’t count, unless there is more than one student in the car.)
To enter, all that is needed is to fill out this google form after commuting on June 1. This will not only enter you for the prize drawings, it will help us collect up information on the success of the event, and to better understand the challenges and opportunities to reduce miles driven in our community. The form must be submitted by June 6th at noon to be entered into the prize drawings.
Promotional Materials (for Schools and Businesses)
Car Free Day 2022 is the result of many different community groups coming together. Thank you to the following organizations who are collaborating on this effort.
Jefferson County/Port Townsend Climate Action Committee
Students For Sustainability
Jefferson County Public Health and Jefferson County
