A cool thing about moving to the downtown office was that I got to take the light rail into the office. That would be a cost savings in general, but then I discovered that the office here was signed up for the “Eco Pass,” which is a business\/transit district program that basically gives a highly discounted transit pass to companies, who must then buy it for everyone in the office.<\/p>\n
With Eco Pass rates going up this year, there were various concerns that it might be dropped, but …<\/p>\n
\nI have received several emails regarding the R.T.D. ECO Pass 2009 rate increase, and how this may effect the employee…<\/p>\n
PLEASE NOTE:<\/p>\n
The increase in the ECO pass system DID affect [the company], but the company decided to pay for 100% of the increase (in addition to paying 100% of the monthly parking rate increase) so as to protect the employees from having to burden any of these costs increases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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