<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="">Awesome! Based on this I am particularly interested in Boeing, McKinstry, Bank of America, and Regence Blueshield. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">According to our survey responses at least some Boeing employees get some transit benefits; I’ll talk with SPEEA and the Machinists (the unions that represent Boeing workers) to get confirmation and details. The other three employers we don’t have info about, so if you know anyone or run into anyone who works at any of these places, make sure to ask them.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One I noticed earlier when scanning the Chamber website that’s missing from this list (probably because of the name being recorded differently) is Edelman, our favorite PR firm.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where did you upload the two lists? <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/132177261/Business%20Groups" class="">Here’s a skeleton page on business groups</a>, would be great to link to the files or lists from here.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The port guy also told me that we may be able to get reported drive-alone rates for all the CTR companies from WSDOT. I’m going to try to do that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Stephen DeSanto <<a href="mailto:rachidian@gmail.com" class="">rachidian@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Computers are really good at doing tedious work. I've uploaded the chamber of commerce board of directors and WA Roundtable members. I've also made a new page showing the intersection of these lists:</div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">Companies in the Potential CTR Targets list</li><li class="">Companies in the "City of Seattle CTR Companies April 2019" list that were not in the "CTR Champions" list</li><li class="">Companies with members on the Washington Roundtable</li><li class="">Companies with members in the Seattle Chamber.</li></ol><div class="">If a company is in list #1 or #2 (our targets), AND also in one of list #3 and 4 (board members), THEN they're in this list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/file/134085168/CTR%20intersect%20Business%20Groups.csv" class="">https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/file/134085168/CTR%20intersect%20Business%20Groups.csv</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">N.B.: I'm lazy and made a computer do the work for me, so I might've missed one or two if the company name was very different between lists, if they're actually located outside Seattle (e.g. Microsoft, Nintendo), etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:33 AM Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class="">And another: Cross-reference our <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133437828/Potential%20CTR%20Targets" target="_blank" class="">“Potential CTR targets”</a> list with the <a href="https://seattletransitpasses-research.pbworks.com/w/page/133894899/CTR%20Champions%202018" target="_blank" class="">“Unranked” employers in these lists Stephen compiled</a> to identify employers that are on both lists. This will give us a short-list of employers that may not be providing transit benefits AND may not be meeting drive-alone rate goals. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can provide a csv of the potential CTR targets if you’re working on this & have any trouble pulling that from the table in the wiki.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2019, at 10:20 AM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_7110214592514268312Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Two more somewhat-tedious mini-projects:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ol class="gmail-m_7110214592514268312MailOutline"><li class="">Make a list of the employers that are represented on the board of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce: <a href="https://www.seattlechamber.com/home/about/people" target="_blank" class="">https://www.seattlechamber.com/home/about/people</a></li><li class="">Do the same for the Washington Roundtable: <a href="https://www.waroundtable.com/about/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.waroundtable.com/about/</a></li></ol></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This will help us in our strategic thinking about targets.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Katie</div><div class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 12, 2019, at 8:08 AM, Katie Wilson <<a href="mailto:katie@transitriders.org" target="_blank" class="">katie@transitriders.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_7110214592514268312Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi folks,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On Monday I met with the Port of Seattle's Environmental Program manager working on ground transportation policy for SeaTac airport— which apparently has a horrendous drive-alone rate, by the way. He mentioned that the Puget Sound Regional Council’s survey data shows that lower-wage workers are less likely to get transit benefits through work. It would be a good mini-project someone could take on to look at <a href="https://www.psrc.org/household-travel-survey-program" target="_blank" class="">PSRC’s 2017 Travel Survey data</a> to try to find that, plus any other info we think is relevant to our project.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s probably useful for more than one person to look at the data, but if you’re going to pursue the transit benefits piece in particular, say something so we don’t duplicate efforts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Katie</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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