This is a little dated but still worth mentioning:
Ten Long Island Companies Recognized for Regional Commuter Choice Programs
In May 2007, the winners of the second annual Regional Commuter Choice Awards were announced, recognizing the outstanding commute alternative achievements of organizations in the New York metropolitan region.
The awards are sponsored by The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) in collaboration with the regional Metropolitan Mobility Network (MNN), and honored companies for demonstrating their commitment to reducing traffic congestion and air pollution via commuter benefit programs that encourage commute alternatives. The winners represent a diverse group of members of the Commuter Choice (www.commuterchoice.com) program, and resulted in the elimination of 60,000-plus car trips and more than one million vehicle miles traveled on regional roadways each week.
The Regional Commuter Choice Award recipients were classified as small (up to 100 employees), mid-range (100-500 employees) and large businesses (500 employees or more), which qualified for one of the following rewards (two organizations received honorable mention awards):
Leadership Award: For longstanding commuter benefit programs with multiple commute alternatives and a high rate of employee participation; a comprehensive marketing plan and a formal program evaluation showing environmental results.
Outstanding Achievement Award: For commuter benefit programs introduced one year ago or longer with a wide selection of commute alternatives and a high rate of employee participation.
Innovator Award: For a new or unique commuter benefit programs introduced within the last 12 months.
"Millions of people in the New York region sit in traffic, increasing air pollution, wasting gasoline and increasing their own stress every day," said Joel Ettinger, executive director of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council. "The Regional Commuter Choice Awards recognize employers that are committed to helping commuters find a better, faster way to get to work. Reducing drive-alone commuting saves employees time and money, while reducing the congestion and pollution caused by so many cars on our roads."
Long Island Transportation Management and New York State Department of Transportation are pleased to announce that ten Nassau and Suffolk County employers were recognized for their leadership and commitment to getting workers to try alternatives to driving single occupancy vehicles to work.
The Nassau/Suffolk County winners are:
Large Outstanding Achievement
Geico
Northport VA Medical Center
Mid-Size Outstanding AchievementEppendorf/Brinkmann
Honeywell
Mid-Size Innovator Air Techniques, Inc.
Small Biz Outstanding Achievement
Girl Scouts of Nassau County
Leadership
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Honorable Mention
AHRC
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Town of Huntington
"We congratulate all of these Long Island companies for making the commitment to invest in commute alternatives for employees - an invaluable employee benefit that will help attract and retain a high quality workforce."
Marianne Carillo, President and CEO, LITM
For more information and to get your organization involved with Commuter Choice, call 877-4COMMUTE.
Showing posts with label Long Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long Island. Show all posts
Monday, October 8, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Bucolic? Well, Sometimes
The New York Times has a nice piece today about driving on Long Island. Despite the nastiness of traffic most days and most times, pleasant afternoon drives can be found.
My first real exposure to Long Island, moving here from Connecticut, was Jericho Turnpike. What a dismal introduction. All those many strip malls, with their endless entrances and exits that slow traffic.
My own neighborhood is getting more difficult to get out of. We're bordered on one site by a very busy county road that leads down to Jericho Turnpike. At the end of the other road, Dix Hills, also leading to Jericho, is a five-way intersection that has become nearly impossible to get through now. I don't know what has happened, other than the resetting of lights because of a relatively new grocery store but that intersection has become a real mess, with drivers making haphazard turns in front and to the side of other cars as they try to enter one of the five roads leading into the intersection.
My first real exposure to Long Island, moving here from Connecticut, was Jericho Turnpike. What a dismal introduction. All those many strip malls, with their endless entrances and exits that slow traffic.
My own neighborhood is getting more difficult to get out of. We're bordered on one site by a very busy county road that leads down to Jericho Turnpike. At the end of the other road, Dix Hills, also leading to Jericho, is a five-way intersection that has become nearly impossible to get through now. I don't know what has happened, other than the resetting of lights because of a relatively new grocery store but that intersection has become a real mess, with drivers making haphazard turns in front and to the side of other cars as they try to enter one of the five roads leading into the intersection.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
An Oldie But Goodie
This is one of those joke lists about Long Island drivers.
A right lane construction closure is just a game to see how any people can cut in line by passing you on the right, as you sit in the left lane waiting for the same jerks to squeeze their way back in before hitting the orange construction arrows.
Turn signals will give away your next move; a real Long Island driver never uses them. Use of them in Massapequa may be illegal.
Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.
Crossing two or more lanes in a single lane-change is considered "going with the flow."
Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in, giving a nice, relaxing foot massage as the brake pedal pulsates. (For those of you without ABS, it's a chance to stretch your legs).
The new electronic traffic warning system signs are not there to provide useful information, they are only there to make Long Island look high-tech and to distract you from seeing the State Police car parked behind the grassy knoll.
Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It's a good way to scare people entering the highway.
Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork.
Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions and not enforceable during rush hour.
Just because you're in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn't mean that a Long Island driver, flashing his high beams behind you, doesn't think he can go faster in your spot.
Please remember that there is no such thing as a shortcut during rush-hour traffic on Long Island.
Always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire.
Learn to swerve abruptly. Long Island is the home of high-speed slalom driving thanks to our State Legislature, who put potholes in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes.
Seeking eye contact with another driver revokes your right of way, except in Garden City where it acts as an invitation to duel or play chicken.
The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.
It is traditional on Long Island to honk your horn at cars that don't move the instant the light changes.
Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding; remember that the goal of every Long Island driver is to get there first, by whatever means necessary.
Gas will always be more expensive on Long Island because everyone's too busy to care!
Construction signs warn you about road closures immediately after you pass the last exit before the backup.
Throwing litter on the roads adds color to the landscape and gives Adopt-a-Highway crews something to clean up.
It is assumed that state police cars passing at high speed may be followed in the event you need to make up a few minutes on your way to work, or the beach.
Real Long Island female drivers can put on pantyhose, apply eye makeup, and balance the checkbook at seventy-five miles per hour, during a snowstorm, in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Real Long Island men drivers can remove panty hose and a bra at seventy-five miles per hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
All Long Island drivers are required to use a cellular phone while driving. It makes it easier to call 911 when they hit someone and the Police can respond more quickly to block off 2 or more lanes of traffic ... especially during rush hour.
And, finally ...
Heavy fog and rain are no reasons to change any of the above rules. These weather conditions are God's way ensuring the economic well-being of body shops, junk yards and new vehicle sales.
However, snow (no matter how light) constitutes a mandate to slow to 20 mph less than the speed necessary to deal with the condition. Ice, even if only patchy, is considered a reasonable excuse for not going to work and spending the day shopping instead.
A right lane construction closure is just a game to see how any people can cut in line by passing you on the right, as you sit in the left lane waiting for the same jerks to squeeze their way back in before hitting the orange construction arrows.
Turn signals will give away your next move; a real Long Island driver never uses them. Use of them in Massapequa may be illegal.
Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you, or the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.
Crossing two or more lanes in a single lane-change is considered "going with the flow."
Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in, giving a nice, relaxing foot massage as the brake pedal pulsates. (For those of you without ABS, it's a chance to stretch your legs).
The new electronic traffic warning system signs are not there to provide useful information, they are only there to make Long Island look high-tech and to distract you from seeing the State Police car parked behind the grassy knoll.
Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It's a good way to scare people entering the highway.
Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork.
Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions and not enforceable during rush hour.
Just because you're in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn't mean that a Long Island driver, flashing his high beams behind you, doesn't think he can go faster in your spot.
Please remember that there is no such thing as a shortcut during rush-hour traffic on Long Island.
Always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire.
Learn to swerve abruptly. Long Island is the home of high-speed slalom driving thanks to our State Legislature, who put potholes in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes.
Seeking eye contact with another driver revokes your right of way, except in Garden City where it acts as an invitation to duel or play chicken.
The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.
It is traditional on Long Island to honk your horn at cars that don't move the instant the light changes.
Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding; remember that the goal of every Long Island driver is to get there first, by whatever means necessary.
Gas will always be more expensive on Long Island because everyone's too busy to care!
Construction signs warn you about road closures immediately after you pass the last exit before the backup.
Throwing litter on the roads adds color to the landscape and gives Adopt-a-Highway crews something to clean up.
It is assumed that state police cars passing at high speed may be followed in the event you need to make up a few minutes on your way to work, or the beach.
Real Long Island female drivers can put on pantyhose, apply eye makeup, and balance the checkbook at seventy-five miles per hour, during a snowstorm, in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Real Long Island men drivers can remove panty hose and a bra at seventy-five miles per hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
All Long Island drivers are required to use a cellular phone while driving. It makes it easier to call 911 when they hit someone and the Police can respond more quickly to block off 2 or more lanes of traffic ... especially during rush hour.
And, finally ...
Heavy fog and rain are no reasons to change any of the above rules. These weather conditions are God's way ensuring the economic well-being of body shops, junk yards and new vehicle sales.
However, snow (no matter how light) constitutes a mandate to slow to 20 mph less than the speed necessary to deal with the condition. Ice, even if only patchy, is considered a reasonable excuse for not going to work and spending the day shopping instead.
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