June 30, 2008 7:13 pm
Well, I’m glad I asked. Last week, something made me wonder where my bike-commute subsidy moola might be for the months of March/April and so I sent an email to the Howard Hughes Center’s transportation coordinator. Typically it arrives a month or so after logs are submitted, but here we were nearing the end of the second month and I got nothing.
Good thing I got curious because the transportation coordinator told me I had not been forgotten and that a Visa gift card for my commutes along with a bonus card for riding my bike on May’s Bike To Work Week had been delivered more than a couple weeks ago. I asked around to the appropriate people in the office, but nope: nothing had been delivered along those lines for me.
So emails went back and forth until finally new Visa gift cards were reissued and delivered today ($68.50 for the March/April commutes and $25.50 (WOO HOO!) for the Bike To Work Day ride, so dang if I ain’t $94 mad money dollars richer — all for just riding my bike:

And hell, I just remembered I’ve still got $25 left on the gift card from my January/February commutes.


July 1st, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I’d love to bike to work but, man, it gets pretty hot out here in the Ess Gee Vee.
As a daily Metro Rail commuter, I get $25/month ($12.50 per pay period) from my employer for not using a parking space…but after my first two paychecks, I STILL haven’t even gotten my transit moolah! An email to HR was quickly sent out to inquire.
People who use a parking space get charged $7/day but the company subsidizes everything above $25. Meanwhile, for us who Go Metro, with our allegedly-existing transit bonus which I have yet to see, we still have to pony up the $37 remainder of our $62 monthly pass. So people who drive and use the parking space get a bigger subsidy. Hm…
Makes ya wonder.