Practice sustainable travel with resources from Commuter Services

Earth Day is every day when it comes to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. Commuter Services offers tools to help commuters and residents reduce their carbon footprint.

As a transportation management organization serving Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, Minnetonka and Richfield, Commuter Services provides free resources to help employers, commuters and residents make conscious, sustainable decisions about the way they travel every day.

Commuter Services’ resources give people the tools they need to start and continue sustainable travel or commuting habits through bus or train transit, riding bike, carpooling or vanpooling, walking, or working from home.

Visit the Commuter Services website, 494corridor.org, for more information including tools to create a personalize commuting plan. Free resources are available by request at 494corridor.org/commute-planner.php.

Did you know?

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency cites transportation as the state’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 25 percent of annual emissions. More than 70 percent of those emissions come from passenger vehicles, light-duty vehicles including SUVs, and medium- to heavy-duty trucks.