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Week one Walk There! Challenge winners
Our 2008 Walk There! Challenge is under way
and CobbRides and The Clean Air
Campaign have already rewarded the following
participants.
Fred Jenks of ISMG/ TownPark
and Purnima Keswani of TSYS
each won an iPod Shuffle in a random
drawing from all Walk There! Challenge
participants logging their steps.
Time to get out and Walk There. Take the stairs or
a lunchtime stroll; get out and get healthy while
competing for prizes.
There will be more winners each week in April
and a grand prizewinner of a getaway weekend to
the Inn at Serenbe.
Log your steps
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CobbRides, a public-private
partnership, was
begun in
1998 and is a free service provided by the
Town
Center Area Community Improvement District
(CID),
designed to address traffic congestion and
air quality
problems in the area.
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| Current eNews |
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View this issue of CobbRidesNews in your browser.
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CobbRidesNews |
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| Watch out for the Stroll Patrol |
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Get caught wearing your pedometer and win
instantly.
CobbRides has extra rewards for Walk There!
Challenge participants. Throughout the four
weeks of our Walk There! Challenge, we will be
out patrolling for participants wearing their pedometers.
We will also have random drawings from our
instant winners for $25 gift cards.
So, put on those pedometers, step out during
your lunch hour, and watch for our Stroll Patrol.
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| Wishing for a world class transit system? |
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Ever heard the statement that transit doesn't work in
Atlanta because it "doesn't go where you want to go"?
Wish our region had a world-class transit system? If so,
take five minutes to tell us.
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Transit in Atlanta |
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| Traffic congestion costs millions |
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The cost of traffic congestion is staggering. Each year,
metro Atlantans:
waste 71 million gallons of gas due to traffic
congestion.*
spend more than 1.7 billion vehicle hours
traveling, an average of 438 hours per person.*
lose more than $1.75 billion, approximately
$1,127 per peak traveler, due to congestion-related
costs.*
travel more than 46 billion miles each year, 31.6
per person each day.
No better time than now to try a commute alternative.
DivideYourRide, join a vanpool, try transit, all
while saving money, earning incentives and winning
prizes.
*Sources: Atlanta Regional Commission 2004
Transportation Fact Book, Texas Transportation Institute
Urban Mobility Study 2004/2005 and the Georgia
Regional Transportation Authority 2003 Annual Air
Quality Report
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Commute Alternatives |
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| Welcome to AdvanceMe, Inc. |
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CobbRides welcomes another new partner,
AdvanceMe, Inc.
AdvanceMe, Inc. employees have
already started several carpools and many others are
participating in our Walk There! Challenge. Over
100 employees attended our kickoff event.
Congratulations AdvanceMe, Inc. and
welcome to CobbRides.
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Partner With CobbRides |
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| March winners |
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Congratulations to our March winners.
Donna Mastice of Genuine Parts
Company and Christy Bohannon of
KSU were the random winners selected
from all correct answers received for our March
Egg Hunt. Each won a $20 gift card.
All participants submitting correct Egg Hunt answers
also received a gift from CobbRides. Winners
were Donna Adams, Angela Brown, Kellie Oxford,
Pat Beardsley and Runi Perkins of
KSU, Meredith Raines
of ThyssenKrupp Elevator, Sherri
Taylor of AT&T,
Phylicia Wasson of Ryla,
Teri Bullard of Philadelphia
Insurance Co., Amy Combs of
Heidelberg, and Cynthia
Chambers-Stewart of TSYS.
Our March Pot O' Gold winner was Jeanisha
Monds of HCC Life. Jeanisha was
randomly selected from all who registered at a
CobbRides event during the month of March.
Randomly selected $25 gift card winners for
March were:
Kathryn Baron of Aaron
Rents, Shelli Howard of
AdvanceMe, Inc., Gloria
Becton of AT&T, Lauren
Dussault of Chase, Cliff
Leighton of Genuine Parts Co.,
Joy Presnell of HCC Life,
Sonya Prichett of Heidelberg,
Judy Wilson, Anthony Heaton, Tomas Acevedo,
Michael de Villers, Ann Gonzales-Coll, Chauncey
Waters, Enedino Cervantes, and Donna
Adams of KSU, David
Garner of Respironics, Paylicia
Wasson of Ryla, Meredith
Raines of ThyssenKrupp Elevator,
Ray James of Kendall Supply/Town
Center Commuters, Ann Deavers of
Kawasaki, Byron Jones, David
Robinson and Cynthia Chambers-
Stewart of TSYS and Sharon
McFarland of Airgas/Town Park.
Congratulations to all of you.
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| Info on pedestrian improvements |
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Cobb County Department of Transportation and
Cobb Community Transit are hosting a public
information open house Thursday, April 24, for
the CCT Pedestrian Access Improvement Project. This
project features improved sidewalk access and the
addition of bus shelters to selected CCT bus stops.
The meeting will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at
the
Cobb County Central Library, 266 Roswell St., Marietta.
Residents may drop in at any time during the hours
scheduled for the meeting.
For more information, please contact the Cobb DOT
Planning Division at 770-528-3658.
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Cobb DOT |
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| Transit In Atlanta |
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Read a brief history of transit in Metro Atlanta over the
past 35 years and see how far we have come.
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Transit History |
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| Go Green |
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Celebrate Earth Day, April 22nd with a friend - carpool.
Join DivideYourRide, our 2-person carpool
program.
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CarPool |
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| Smog season approaching |
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Visit our website to see how you can help. Watch for our
CobbRidesNews Extra on Smog - coming soon.
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Health effects |
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