April 22 to May 5, 2012 - Bike, walk, carpool, transit –
drive less, have fun, and save the planet
Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos/Hills, Foster City, San Carlos, East Palo Alto, Burlingame, and Sunnyvale
Party Friday May 1st 2009 – stories of success, learning, and challenges
On Friday May 1, Drive Less Challenges participants, sponsors and volunteers gathered together to celebrate a successful Drive Less Challenge. Mayor Heyward Robinson spoke at the event. He is an experienced bicycle commuter. But he had never used SamTrans’ capability to take a bicycle on the bus, which makes it practical to get to destinations further from the bus stop. [...]
Drive Less Challenge 2009 – Role Models and Prize Winners
The Drive Less Challenge was designed to stimulate friendly competition, and celebrate role models for green travel practices. The Challenge recognizes group participation, because much of our habits are formed in a social context. When the norm is to be green, it’s easiest to be green! Another goal is to show that there are may different ways to reduce one’s [...]
Patty Fry combines trips to save driving
The Challenge caused me to think hard about combining trips. This took more planning, even to walk portions of trips that included a car. Despite the high temperatures, I started earlier that week by biking to meetings and adding errands. Also, my trip reports did not demonstrate that in nearly every case I combined “civic” trips, at times by changing [...]
Celebrate Drive Less Success – this Friday Night May 1st 2009, 7pm – Kepler’s
Congratulations on completing the Drive Less Challenge! On Friday night, May 1 at 7pm at Kepler’s is the Drive Less Challenge celebration. We’ll be honoring all participants, sponsors, volunteers, and challenge winners. It will be a family-friendly event. You don’t need to be present to be eligible for prizes, but winners who come to the party will have a choice [...]
City Manager Glen Rojas
My experience with the Driveless Challenge was a positive one. Even though i was not able to walk or bike every day I believe the experience did heighten my awareness to reduce my driving. The main obstacles for me were scheduled meetings that I had to attend that did not provide a very good opportunity to walk or ride. Car [...]
