Dump the Pump for Public Transit!

If you’re tired of spending all of your money commuting, this is for you!

Dump the Pump is a campaign designed to encourage public transit instead of the need to commute. By doing this, it saves money and time. The event is on June 18^th, but public transit entities in metro Atlanta are hosting promotions for people to drop driving completely.

This year is especially different! MARTA is bringing back the popular scavenger hunt on June 20 held at Five Points station. As if that’s not incentive enough, there is a week-long commute logging challenge. Anyone who logs into a public transit commute using www.GaCommuteOptions.com between June 15 and the 19^th will be entered into a $25 prize raffle. One winner will be selected per day.

After you pay for gas and parking fees and such, the average person that commutes is spending $340 a month. It only costs $95 a month to ride MARTA. You could be saving so much! A bonus is while on public transit, you can spend time doing things that you wouldn’t be able to do if you were driving. You can read, catch up on some last minute work or just simply rest before you have to spend the rest of the day working. If you try it for at least a day, you can see how much of a difference it’ll make!

If public transit isn’t for you, there are alternative options. You can try carpooling, vanpooling, teleworking, walking and biking to work. Anyone is eligible to log their trip into www.GaCommuteOptions.com to win prizes.

People who make the switch will be offered prizes and incentives to cut out driving completely. You can earn up to $3 a day and up to $100. For any additional information, visit www.GaCommuteOptions.com.