Starting on January 1, 2025, South Coast AQMD will be enforcing recent amendments to Rule 2202, furthering efforts to reduce emissions caused by employee commutes. Employers in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties with 250 or more employees at a worksite will be subject to comply with three new reporting requirements.

• Business Type/Classification
  
  Employers will now be required to report their business type or classification. The amendment defines this as “the activity type that classifies the primary nature of work conducted at the worksite.” The reporting of this information is intended to aid in assessing telecommuting trends and capabilities across a variety of business types and sectors.
• Telecommuting Activity
  
  Regarding telecommuting trends, employers will be required to report on telecommuting trends among their employees. Commutes have been impacted by the rise of work-from-home and the AQMD is looking to better understand the extent of this impact. Amendments also include defining “telecommuting” vs “remote” to add consistency with guideline documents and create a distinction.

• • Telecommuting – Telecommuting occurs when an employee works a full day at home, away from a worksite, or at a telecommuting center that eliminates a trip to work or reduces travel distance by more than 50%.
  • Remote – Remote employees are those assigned to a worksite but who live and work outside of the South Coast AQMD and commute to the worksite less than five days a year.
• Weekly Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT)The third reporting change is the requirement to report the weekly VMT totals for each commute mode and the overall total weekly VMT. VMT via the VMT calculator linked below. The instructions for how to use this calculator tool can also be found here. The ETC was previously required just for those employers choosing the rideshare program option. ETCs must have “completed a South Coast AQMD certified training course and has been appointed to develop, market, administer, and monitor the worksite’s chosen Rule 2202 compliance option.”

In addition to the three new reporting and on-site ETC requirements, the strategies for the Rideshare Program option of Rule 2022 have been expanded. Strategies that can now be claimed with this program include zero emission vehicle charging stations, car sharing services, offering a mobility hub, membership in a Transportation Management Organization, and voluntary worksite transfers.

Useful links

• Compliance Forms: Compliance Forms
• VMT Calculator: VMT Tool
• VMT Calculator Instructions: vmt-calculator-instructions.pdf

If you have any questions on the Rule 2202 recent amendments or would like support with your Employee Commute Reduction Program (ECRP) filling, please feel free to reach out to Go Glendale at [email protected].

Downtown Glendale Urban Art Walk

On June 2nd, Go Glendale organized a Downtown Glendale Urban Art Walk to discuss the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) for Glendale. We have created a map of the route to allow people to take a self-paced tour of Urban Art at the intersection of mobility and climate resilience.

We hope that the Urban Art Walk will help you explore the city with a greater awareness of Glendale’s urban environment and opportunities for walking, biking and taking transit to your favorite places downtown.

We are always open to hearing your thoughts on the CAAP and have a series of questions and polls posted on our Instagram Stories highlights under “CAAP Feedback”. Leave a comment to be entered into a raffle to win one of two $25 gift cards to Salt & Straw! 🍦

Click here to access the map!

May is Bike Month and Glendale is celebrating with new project updates and three pitstops on Bike to Work Day. Visit a pitstop on Glendale’s Bike to Work Day on May 17th for treats and goodies from Go Glendale, the City of Glendale, and Walk Bike Glendale.

Be sure to keep an eye out for the Golden Bike throughout May to participate our bike month raffle too! Spot the Golden Bike? Send us message or tag us on your social media posts using #GGgoldenbike

Join Go Glendale’s Earth Month Scavenger Hunt, an adventure through Glendale!

Test your local transportation and sustainability skills to solve the clues and earn your entry in our raffle! The Scavenger is expected to take about 15 minutes and will begin at Glendale City Hall. Answers will be accepted month long in celebration of Earth Day. Bring your friends and family to participate in a fun and educational experience that promotes sustainable living!

Head to the starting point at Glendale’s City Hall and find the “mini-Earth”! Once you’re there answer the questions from the link below to unlock clues for our Earth Day Scavenger Hunt! Thinking caps and regular caps are suggested for the journey. At the end of the scavenger hunt, you will be entered into a raffle to win a $50 gift card to a local plant store. Good luck!

START QUIZ

In 2023, a significant number of individuals resumed in-person work routines more consistently. With the decrease in telework, this year’s Average Vehicle Ridership (AVR) survey reveals  a promising uptick in sustainable commuting modes and transit as opposed to a mass transition back to single-occupancy vehicles. Throughout October, Go Glendale collaborated with the City of Glendale to conduct an AVR survey across our ten member properties in Downtown Glendale. For one week, we asked you about your commute routines, your thoughts on public transportation, and ideas on what changes could make sustainable commutes to and from Glendale even easier. Go Glendale then analyzed and summarized these results, bringing you the final results in this post.

Explore how commuting in Glendale has evolved, comparing the data with the findings from 2022!

As a note, the Average Vehicle Ridership is a ratio of the number of employee/resident trips over the number of vehicle trips. The higher the ratio, the fewer vehicle trips are being taken in comparison to all trips.