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YUBA-SUTTER TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION UNDERWAY

YOLO TMA EXTENDS TDM SERVICES

Source: ACTion News, Association for Commuter Transportation, Northern California Inland Chapter, Winter 2004 Newsletter. View entire newsletter here [pdf file].

The Yolo Transportation Management Association recently received a grant from the Feather River Air Quality Management District to launch rideshare services in Yuba and Sutter Counties. Plans are underway to work with a number of local companies and agencies to provide information and hands-on assistance leading to expanded carpooling, vanpooling, public transit and local bicycle commute options. With Marysville, Yuba City and other area communities attracting a large number of commuters who work in the metropolitan Sacramento region, highways 70 and 99 are showing increased congestion.

Working with Enterprise Rideshare, this venture has already committed incentive funding to a new vanpool running between Elk Grove and Beale Air Force Base. Program incentives are similar to amounts funded by other Sacramento region TMAs and TDM organizations. For additional information or to participate in this program, please call the Yolo TMA at 530-669-1446.

"The FRAQMD Board of Directors and air district staff would like to extend our gratitude to Mr. Bill Fairbairn, Executive Director, Yolo TMA, for working with the Yuba-Sutter region to launch the Yuba-Sutter TMA."

The goal of the YSTMA is to work with the community and local businesses to improve regional air quality by reducing single occupancy vehicle trips and dependency on the automobile, thereby, reducing motor vehicle emissions, the major source of air pollutants in the Sacramento Valley.