Low-Carbon Options for Getting You Where You Need to Go
SANTA CLARA COUNTY
Bay Area Commuter Benefits Program
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All employers with 50 or more full-time employees are required to offer commuter benefits.
Carpool
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Scoop provides a carpooling service with guaranteed rides home, starting at $1 for drivers and $2 for riders.
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WazeCarpool provides a carpooling service where riders pay drivers $0.54 per mile.
Bike, board, or scooter
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Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition has city-specific biking maps available here.
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Lime-S electric scooters and Lime-E electric assist bikes are $1 to unlock plus $0.15 per minute. Download the Lime app (iOS, Android) to ride.
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Ford GoBike electric assist bikes are $2 per trip. Real time availability listed here.
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Multicycle aggregates locations of e-bikes and e-scooters across multiple companies, including Lime, Ford GoBike, Jump, Bird, and others. Real time map available here.
Bus, shuttle, ferry, or train
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Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority provides transit throughout the county, with regular fares of $2.50. Live map available here.
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Caltrain provides service between San Francisco and San Jose, with regular fares starting at $3.75. System map available here.
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Palo Alto Shuttle is free. Live map of Crosstown Shuttle available here, and live map of Embarcadero Shuttle available here.
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Mountain View Community Shuttle is free. Live map available here.
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Stanford Marguerite Shuttle is free and covers Stanford campus and parts of Palo Alto. Live map here.
Transportation connections
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When travelling further afield, also think about linking different transportation options and about connections to BART, AC Transit, SamTrans, SFMTA, Golden Gate Transit, San Francisco Bay Ferry, Capitol Corridor and others...
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