The State of Virginia is a major proponent of teleworking and not many know about their comprehensive website loaded with everything you need to know when it comes to working from home.

‘Pool Rewards is a program of Commuter Connections designed to encourage current drive alone commuters to try carpooling in the Washington region. If eligible you can earn $2 per day ($1 each way) for each day you carpool to work over a consecutive 90-day period as assigned by Commuter Connections.

Join Local Motion on Facebook and stay up to date on everything commuting and transportation. Read, share, comment—we are keen for your feedback. Our goal with this new page is to provide everyone who lives and works in the City of Alexandria an easy, fun way to interact with us and other commuters. Now is a good time to join our network (“like” our page)— See you there soon!

The City is partnering with WABA to offer many bike classes this spring and summer. The classes vary from learning to ride to confident city cycling course work. Sign up today!

 Alexandria Transit Company (ATC) mechanics and Sportworks contractors spent this past weekend installing new bike racks on the 53 DASH buses that had not been equipped with them. Now, all DASH buses have front mounted, two position bike racks and bikes can travel on the entire DASH fleet of 73 buses and 5 trolleys.