<html><head></head><body> <div dir="auto">This looks fun, I’d love to go. </div><div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div>On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 15:23, Wes Mills <<a class="" href="mailto:On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 15:23, Wes Mills <<a href=">wesmills@wesmills.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"> <div>
We got invited to this last year and weren’t able to make it work. I think we should give it a shot this year, especially with the 2 Line opening on the Eastside.
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I know it’s during the middle of the week (Wednesday and Thursday) but I could probably make it work with at least one other person alongside me. :)
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We’ll need to make some more buttons and trifolds!
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On Tue, May 6, 2025, at 19:39, Katie Wilson wrote:
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Sharing in case TRU/BATS wants to have a booth! (Reed is one of our friends from Greenways!)
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font">Reed Hampton <reedhampton@google.com></span>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font"><b>Invitation to the 2025 Google WA Commute Expo!</b></span>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font">May 6, 2025 at 3:32:35 PM PDT</span>
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<span style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font">Katie Wilson <katie@transitriders.org>, "contact@transitriders.org" <contact@transitriders.org></span>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt;" class="size">We are excited to invite you to participate in the annual Google WA Commute Expo, an event that aims to promote sustainable commuting options for Google employees across Google’s Washington offices. Last year we held the 2nd edition of our annual Commute Expo with great success, welcoming nearly 2,000 Googlers from Seattle and Kirkland to the Expo, with ~600 on the SEA side and ~1,400 on the KIR side!</span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-size:11pt;" class="size">Demo units of various vehicles that Google employees can test ride, including bicycles, e-bikes, electric scooters, and other PEVs,</span></span>
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<span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt;" class="size"><u><a href="mailto:commute-expo-wa@google.com">commute-expo-wa@google.com</a></u></span></span></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size:11pt;" class="size">. We look forward to hearing from you soon and hope to see you and your organization at the 2025 Google WA Commute Expo!</span></span></span>
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