I just got off the phone with
Andrea Robbins of
GoBoulder -- the organization that recently bestowed upon me the title of
Boulder's Car-Free Commuter of the Year. She's doing a short write-up on me for the forthcoming 2007 award winners page, which is cool.
It turns out that, among other duties at GoBoulder, Andrea heads up the
Neighborhood Eco Pass program. My neighborhood, Greenbelt Meadows, signed up for this program, and that's how I got my low-cost Eco Pass.
Naturally, Andrea asked me about how m yneighbors are using their Eco Passes -- especially how adults are using it. I told her, first of all, that if I didn't have a low-cost Eco-Pass I might have thought twice about going carless, since a main motivation in my decision was saving money.
To be honest, I know the people in my cul de sac pretty well, but not throughout the neighborhood. So I really could only comment on my immediate neighbors, most of whom are families with small or school-age kids. For the most part these adults don't take the bus much, because they have to ferry their kids around to so much stuff. However, my neighbors do tend to bike a lot. In fact one of my neighbors, an avid runner and biker, actually bikes to his job at Seagate in Longmont during
walk/bike to work week! He's a little nuts, but we still like him.
What I forgot to tell Andrea (and I'll send her a llink to this post) is that one thing everyone in my neighborhood seems to use their Eco Pass for the bus to the airport. We're right near the Table Mesa Park & Ride, and almost no one around here ever drives to the airport (unless they're picking up an out-of-state visitor). We all take the Skyride bus -- which at $10/ride, means our Neighborhood Eco Passes pay for themselves pretty darn quick.
...In other news... Looks like YourHub's own
Brendan Leonard is going to bike up to Boulder to accept my award on my behalf on April 20. Thanks, dude! I want pictures!
(UPDATE: Here's
Brendan's post about his bike ride plans.)