The Downtown On The Go! Program

The Downtown: On the Go! Program is an active partnership between the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber, the City of Tacoma, and Pierce Transit. Leveraging their resources and relationships, these organizations work together with employers and commuters to promote alternate commuting options.  Together they aim to keep Downtown moving efficiently, growing in economic vitality, and improving in air quality.

In addition to the programs available through Pierce Transit, the Chamber offers resources and incentives specific to Downtown commuters and businesses.  From informational presentations, individualized employee/employer consultations, commuter rewards, socials, and more, the Downtown On The Go! Program supports you in trying or continuing non-SOV commute!  For more information on the services, campaigns, and incentives offered via this program, click here.


The Downtown On The GO! Partnership

The Partnership envisions a Downtown Tacoma that facilitates employment and residential growth, maintains efficient movement of people, and promotes a vibrant, livable Downtown through coordination of transportation access options and products.

In early 2009, leaders from more than 17 downtown businesses formed the Downtown On the Go! Transportation Partnership.  Through a collective voice, the Partnership seeks to identify and advocate for viable solutions to the parking and transportation challenges facing downtown businesses and commuters. Members of the partnership have agreed to collaborate on commute trip reduction strategies, with a goal of 35% of employees using alternate (meaning non-single occupancy vehicle, or SOV) commute options: transit, walking, biking, telecommuting, and car/vanpooling.

The Partnership meets monthly to address the following:

• Transit routes, capacity, programs, and frequency
• Biking and walking infrastructure and amenities
• Carsharing possibilities and opportunities for Tacoma
• Telework and other non-traditional commute trip reduction options
• Parking provision and its relationship to employees’ use of alternate commute options

Read the 2008-2009 Transportation Partnership Report & Proposal here.

If you are a Downtown business in Tacoma and you would like to learn more about the Partnership and how you can get involved, email Julia Petersen, the Downtown: On The Go! Program and Partnership Coordinator, at juliap@tacomachamber.org.

If you are already a member of the Downtown: On The Go! Partnership, and would like to access meeting agendas, minutes, and other shared materials, click here.

101 Reasons to Choose An Alternate Commute

Downtown: On the Go! Program Services

Commute Options

Resources for Commuters

Resources for Employers

The Downtown: On the Go! Transportation Partnership History & Materials

Downtown: On the Go! Newsletters

Tacoma's Transportation Successes & Accomplishments