Join the free club that pays you for driving! Commuter Connections, the regional transportation nonprofit dedicated to making traffic less miserable and the environment cleaner, offers a program that pays drivers for starting carpool and vanpools. It’s a pretty sweet deal, and your passengers get paid as well.
What are you waiting for? Let’s jump into the pool.
The “Pool Rewards” program pays up to a $130 subsidy to those who start — and join — new carpools, after a period of 90 days using the carpool. Those driving alone to and from work each day at peak rush hour times can earn cash to help offset fuel and tolls. While commuting, passengers can earn the same amount for doing work, pleasure reading, or keeping the driver company.
That figure goes up to $200 towards new vanpools of between seven and 15 occupants, including the driver. Realizing not everyone has an 8-passenger vehicle, Commuter Connections will help arrange for the van.
As an added value, Commuter Connections will do the heavy lifting in finding you companionable commuters who can share the road with you — you just need to identify one potential carpool partner when you sign up.
The “Pool Rewards” program is intended to encourage those who presently drive alone to begin car and vanpooling to relieve traffic congestion, reduce air pollution, reduce stress, reduce the personal cost of getting to and from work and to save riders an extra average 24 minutes one-way in their commute thanks to HOV/Express Lanes relief.
For more information about starting a carpool or vanpool see the website here. The program is always free.
Commuter Connections is a regional network of transportation organizations coordinated by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments that are united in helping improve the region’s traffic. Commuter Connections offers free services and programs that help employees and employers throughout the region find the most cost-effective, convenient and safe commutes. Direct ridematching, commuter incentive programs, information on public transit, HOV/Express 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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