<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">This is pretty funny. Stephen added locations and industries for all our potential CTR targets and I noticed one is a PR firm located downtown. I thought it would be fun to go after a PR firm so I looked them up— Edelman— and found two reviews on Glassdoor complaining about no bus passes, e.g.:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">It is disappointing how many hours people would work for little compensation. At the very least offer a bus pass discount, as a majority of Seattle employees commute to work by bus. The work culture is uptight and stuffy to the point where I consistently felt like I was walking on eggshells.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyway, to top that off, it looks like <a href="https://www.edelman.com/offices/seattle" class="">Edelman does PR for Starbucks</a>!</div>
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 23, 2019, at 8:32 AM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi All,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike merged the google forms responses with the larger data set and removed PII— I’ve uploaded the file to the wiki <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/file/133754394/Merged%20TRU%20survey%20no%20PII.xlsx" class="">here</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think the main cleaning that needs to be done before we can answer most of the questions we’ve discussed so far is to remove responses from people who don’t commute to a job. I’ve described that task above the data analysis tables <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133613826/Commute%20Survey%201" class="">here</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I listed a couple more things people could do with the data now on the Research Tasks page <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133438026/Research%20Questions" class="">here</a>. If you’re going to work on something please put your name in the table so we don’t duplicate efforts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m going to be out of town tonight through Monday night but then will be back in action.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">p.s. In case it’s not clear, this is a listserv so if you reply to <a href="mailto:research@transitriders.org" class="">research@transitriders.org</a> it goes to everyone in the group.</div>
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 16, 2019, at 10:41 AM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for meeting at Optimism on Tuesday! On this email group are Mike, Harry, Stephen, Jim, and Tom. You should all have access to our wiki tool, PBworks. If you didn’t get an invitation or weren’t able to access the site, let me know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I started making <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133613826/Commute%20Survey%201" class="">some tables that I thought might be a good way to display our survey data analysis</a>. But, I’m not an expert on this stuff, so please take a look and let me know what you think. Mike is going to work on merging the data, removing PII, and either cleaning or identifying the cleaning tasks that need to be done.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Harry was able to scrape <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/file/133642833/scraped_sbux_loc.xlsx" class="">all the info we need and more</a> about Starbucks locations, so we’re good on that front!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133437828/Potential%20CTR%20Targets" class="">the table for collecting info about CTR-affected employers</a> that don’t contract directly with Metro for ORCA programs. Feel free to fill stuff in. I just added a few columns that weren’t there before. Basically, we’re trying to decide whether these could be good targets. (And by the way, if you’re interested in reading about the Commute Trip Reduction law, <a href="https://www.seattle.gov/transportation/projects-and-programs/programs/transportation-options-program/commute-trip-reduction-program/ctr-requirements" class="">you can do that here</a>.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Finally, <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133438026/Research%20Questions:" class="">here’s where we can list tasks that need to be done</a>. I’m hoping all these pages are pretty easy to navigate to and between, just wanted to send some links to start things off.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you have some time & aren’t sure what to work on, email me and we’ll figure something out!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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