FDOT – reThink Your Commute

Downtown Orlando Commuters Challenged to reThink

Downtown Orlando Commuters Challenged to reThink
 

Orlando, FL – Nearly 600 commuters joined the Go DTO: Downtown Orlando Commute Challenge, logging more than 9,000 trips during May. More than 61,000 car miles were saved by commuters “rethinking” how they traveled to work, which also helped burn more than 257,000 calories.

During the month of May, Downtown Orlando commuters earned points, badges and prizes for logging their trips at GoDTO.org. The initiative, called Go DTO, was a commute challenge for people who commute to work in Downtown Orlando. Go DTO was a celebration of the transportation amenities in Downtown Orlando and the environmentally conscious commuters using them to get to work. The effort was a partnership between reThink, the Florida Department of Transportation’s District 5 Regional Commuter Assistance Program, and the City of Orlando’s Downtown Development Board, along with GreenWorks Orlando, the Downtown Orlando Partnership, Orlando Weekly, The Pop Parlour, and Zipcar.

The campaign encouraged commuters to log their commute trips in order to accumulate points, collect badges and be entered into prize drawings. In addition, the first 1,000 commuters who logged a round-trip commute earned a free popsicle from The Pop Parlour, located in Thornton Park. The fun didn’t end there. Commuters who participated in the City of Orlando’s Bike to Work Day on May 6, 2016 earned the “Biked With Buddy” badge. One lucky SunRail rider was awarded with two tickets to Universal Orlando, courtesy of Team SunRail.

The campaign included several events throughout the month of May, including a kick-off event at Ferg’s Depot on May 3, 2016, hosted by the Downtown Orlando Partnership, and a transportation scavenger hunt on May 26 at the Downtown Information Center.