What happens when the carpool driver has to leave work early due to a family emergency, or comes down with a fast-moving illness that sends them home before the workday is over?
The commuters who ride with them are stranded and need to default to Plan B, which could be a costly paid-ride home.
Commuter Connections has it figured out, and here’s the answer: the Guaranteed Ride Home Program.
Members of the free Commuter Connections service are eligible for up to four free rides home a year when their car — or vanpool driver can’t finish the workday.
It’s a peace-of-mind, free program designed to encourage ridesharing. Ridesharing saves money, reduces stress, lowers traffic volume and shrinks the size of carbon footprints all around the region. (Some restrictions apply; see the website for details.)
The Guaranteed Ride Home covers those times the commuter experiences an unexpected personal or family emergency, such as an illness, or unscheduled overtime. It’s a free “insurance plan,” for your daily commute.
New members can sign up for the program here.
Commuter Connections, the regional network of transportation organizations coordinated by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, offers free services and programs that help employees and employers throughout the region find the most cost-effective, convenient, and safe commutes. Information on ridematching, public transit, HOV lane restrictions, park-and-ride lots, bicycling and teleworking are among the services Commuter Connections has been promoting since its founding in 1974.
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