Commute Options Blog
Walk and Roll Education Menu
We want to know how we can help! We are busy planning for the 2020-2021 school year. The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is pivoting alongside school administrators to offer lesson plans to teachers across Central Oregon. We have created a menu of options for our...
Oregon Friendly Driver Course Announcement!
Oregon Friendly Driver class is now available online! Commute Options offers a free 75-minute course to educate people who drive, about the best and safest ways to use the road with people walking or riding bikes. Historically, we traveled to worksites and classrooms...
Rethinking the Right of Way
Necessity is the mother of invention, and the Downtown Bend Business Association is helping Bend small businesses chart a new way forward during the Coronavirus pandemic. Central Oregon faces a dilemma over the Coronavirus pandemic. Reopening our businesses seems to...
Get the whole family moving with the Walk and Roll Challenge
Get the Whole Family Moving with the Walk and Roll Challenge Tune into Commute Options social media this June for activities that will get you and your household moving and help to teach your young ones about navigating streets, intersections, and neighborhoods. You...
Cascades East Transit announcing changes in service and access
Cascades East Transit is rolling out new service between La Pine and Sunriver—and will begin running more often during the weekday schedules for Bend and Community Connector routes. More buses more often along CET routes allows more options for physical distancing....
TeleworkPerks is back! June 1-12, 2020
With the Phase 1 opening of businesses in Oregon, many of our partners are heading back into the office, restaurant, and retail shop. If you are still working from home, we have our next #teleworkperks challenge, June 1-12. Register today at Get There. Just log your...
New York Times talks telework
The New York Times is on the Telework Train! In their recent article "What if you don't want to go back to the office?" they explore fact that millions of us are part of an experiment to work from home and are liking the benefits: Less time on the road. Greater...
Safe Routes Partnership pitching in for essential transit
The Safe Routes Partnership published an article called "Advocating for Essential Transit Options: Active Transportation Advocates as Allies," where an Oregon public transportation provider was profiled. Here is an exerpt: "CENTER COMMUNITY NEEDS IN OUTREACH &...
Giving Tuesday Now in Central Oregon
Commute Options, The Environmental Center, Embark Bend, Central Oregon LandWatch, Oregon Natural Desert Association and other non-profits and organizations worked together share knowledge and resources to support our fellow Central Oregonians during the COVID-19...
Oregon Business Magazine Talks about Get There
Through Get There, ODOT and its partners are helping shift business practices and workplace habits. It’s not trying to encourage everyone to ride a bike or take the bus, but to consider what travel options work for different trips and different days. It’s also about...
