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Local businesses compete
in earth-friendly challenge
The Commute Challenge
offers Eugene businesses
prizes for using alternative
method's of transportation
By A. Sho Ikeda
Senior News Reporter
Some Eugene residents are strapping
on their helmets and hopping on their
bikes this week as Eugene businesses
compete to get as many employees as
possible to commute using alternative
methods of transportation.
The fourth annual Commute Chal
lenge is an event sponsored by the city
of Eugene, Eugene Area Chamber of
Commerce and Lane Regional Air
Pollution Authority to encourage Eu
gene commuters to find other ways to
get to work instead of driving alone.
The event offers awards and prizes to
businesses of all sizes for getting the
highest number of employees to use
alternative transportation to get to
work during the week.
Commute Challenge coordinator
Cindy Clarke said traffic congestion in
Eugene is an "issue."
"Eugene has one of the worst traffic
congestion (situations) for a city of its
size," Clarke said, citing a new study
conducted by the Texas Transporta
tion Institute.
According to the study, the average
rush-hour driver wasted 51 hours sit
ting in traffic in 2001. A driver in Port
land, on the other hand, lost 58 hours
a year in rush-hour traffic. Specific
data for Eugene was not immediately
available, however.
Clarke said the Commute Chal
lenge was initiated to encourage Eu
gene businesses to look for different
ways to get their employees to travel
to work in order to reduce traffic con
gestion, improve air quality and de
crease parking demand.
"Biking and walking are obvious so
lutions that help the environment and
are good for your health," Clarke said.
Clarke added that busses, carpools
and vanpools are also viable trans
portation alternatives.
About 75 businesses are participat
ing in this year's Commute Challenge,
according to Clarke.
"That's pretty consistent from last
year's event and for a community this
size, is excellent," Clarke said.
Clarke said reducing traffic and im
proving air quality in Eugene would
let the city avoid federal mandates re
quiring vehicle emission testing and
other regulations.
AccuTel Inc. and Pentagon Federal
Credit Union are just two of the
businesses in this year's competition
and have competed with each other
since the first Commute Challenge.
The two businesses are located next
to each other.
Rosalind Kauffman, an employee
development generalist for Pentagon
Federal Credit Union, said the organi
zation hoped to beat AccuTel in the
friendly competition again this year
after losing the first two years. She said
the business is dedicated to assisting
the community and the Commute
Challenge is one way to help out.
"We like to do whatever we can to
be a good neighbor to the communi
ty," Kauffman said.
Kauffman said the credit union em
ploys about 190 people, including
about 40 University students. She said
the group organizes challenges be
tween departments in order to en
courage more employees to bike or
carpool to work and offers raffle
prizes and other awards.
"We already have 100 percent of
one department biking or using the
bus," said Kauffman.
Jessyca Dioszeghy, a supervisor at
AccuTel, said her business lost against
Pentagon Federal Credit Union last
year but jokingly said that they had
"let them win." She said she was con
fident AccuTel would win this year.
Dioszeghy said between 25 to 30
percent of AccuTel's 300 employees
used alternative transportation on a
regular basis to get to the inbound
call center's building on Country
Club Road.
"We purchase bus passes for our
employees and lots of people are us
ing them," Dioszeghy said. She said
limited parking motivated AccuTel to
encourage employees to find other
ways to get to work instead of driving.
Prizes for this year's event include
rain gear for cyclists, gift certificates to
local restaurants and a commuter bi»
cycle provided by Wheelworks.
Wheelworks owner Bill Cole said
the 7-speed Fuji Regis bicycle was a
"really good bike" with a simple de
sign and shock absorbers. Cole added
that he was happy to be involved with
the Commute Challenge.
"It's just a great way to get people to
take a break from their regular routine
and bike to work," Cole said. "You
save money on fuel and improve your
blood circulation and your health."
Categories for participating busi
nesses range from small businesses
with 1 to 24 employees to businesses
with 300 or more workers. Today, co
ordinators for each business will re
port to the city the number of em
ployees who participated in the
Commute Challenge through the
week. Winners from each category
will be announced at a celebration at
the Park Blocks on Thursday, October
9 at 5:15 p.m.
Contact the city/state politics reporter
at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com.
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ELECTION
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Voters on Tuesday appeared
unswayed by Davis' charge that the
bizarre and historic recall process was
the malevolent work of right-wing
operatives bitter over his re-election
last November. Nor were they moved
by his repentant pledge to be a better
listener and more passionate leader.
"The intensity of anger was too great
for Davis to overcome," said Republi
can pollster Frank Luntz. "Once the re
call made the ballot, he was toast."
Political analysts predict a rocky
transition. Most elections allow sev
eral weeks for the new governor to
move deliberately into office, replac
ing hundreds of key administrators
with his own. In this case, the change
would be sudden.
Basking in a clear victory, recall
backers urged Shelley to certify the
election quickly.
"The governor should pack his
bags tonight and hand over power,"
said Rep. Darrell Issa, who
bankrolled the recall petition drive.
Issa expressed glee at the result "This
is an overwhelming shift back to centei
and a rejection of the radical left."
Tuesday's vote marked the culmi
nation of a mad pace for the leading
campaigners in a race that lasted just
77 days and drew unheard of interest
amazement and derision from across
the globe.
Financed largely by Issa, a car
alarm magnate-turned Republican
congressman, the campaign mus
tered 1.6 million signatures to qualify
the recall. It survived numerous legal
challenges through state and federal
courts to make it to Tuesday.
Schwarzenegger, with a thick wal
let and a deep well of popularity, car
ried a message of hope for a Republi
can party that only last November
was shut out of all statewide offices. *
"Their hope for leadership, that's
what he said he's bringing," Larry Ger
ston, a San Jose State political scientist*
said. "He's the first one to say: T don't
know statistics. I don't know data. I
don't know programs. I'm a leader.' It's
a blind faith that whatever he's got, this
guy will be better than the other guy."
Schwarzenegger has pledged to cap
state spending, reform workers com
pensation, and rescind the recent
tripling of the car tax without raising
other taxes.
He has not specified how he will
make up the $4 billion in car tax rev
enues, nor how he plans to stanch an
other $8 billion in projected red ink.
Instead, he has called for a 60-day
fiscal audit and promised to expose
billions of dollars in waste.
There have been 31 attempts to re
call a California governor. Until now,
none had succeeded. It was only the
second successful recall of a governor
in the nation's history, after North
Dakotans yanked Gov. Lynn J. Frazier
from office in 1921.
(c) 2003, Contra Costa Times (Walnut
Creek, Calif.). Distributed by Knight
Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
Knight Ridder Newspapers
correspondents Denis Cuff, Sandy
Kleffman, Matt Krupnick, Andrew
LaMar, Thomas Peele and editor John
Armstrong contributed to this report
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