Region 8
Transportation
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Reducing the health and environmental impacts of transportation by improving our fleet and promoting alternative methods of travel.
Vehicles emit about one-third of all volatile organic compounds and half of the nitrogen oxides and air toxics that contribute to poor air quality. They release carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas and known contributor to global climate change. While transportation is crucial to our economy and our personal lives, its impacts compel us as an Agency and as individuals to be smarter about our transportation choices.
What Region 8 is Doing
Commuting
Regional Office and Lab: Region 8 is doing its best in the fight for clean air! Approximately seventy-five percent of Region 8 employees use alternative transportation which includes: biking, car-pooling, public transportation, and van pools. Each year Region 8 provides Eco Passes for employees that live within the Denver Metro area. For employees that bike into work, Region 8 provides showers and secure bike racks. Our parking garage provides preferred parking spacing for employees that car-pool into work. For employees that live outside the Denver Metro area, the Region has a commuter check program. Participants in this program receive a transit subsidy check each month which helps with their commute from Northern or Southern Colorado.
Business travel
The Regional Office has an extensive fleet of vehicles that are available for use to travel around the region. The RO has 9 vehicles available to be checked out to employees as well as 12 programmatic vehicles. The Lab has four vehicles available, and the MOO has five. These vehicles may be hybrids, E-85 or diesel fueled.
Due to the high cost of travel to go to the Montana Operations Office, Region 8 is upgrading its video and teleconferencing capabilities in order to reduce the amount of travel between Denver, Helena and the rest of the agency locations.
