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Introduced bV Alderman Turner
RESOLUTION NO. 324
Series of 1974
WHEREAS, the Wheat Ridge City Council supports the concept
of mass transit and recognizes the method of carpooling as a valid
supplement to the current mass transportation picture; and
WHEREAS, carpooling is a mode of mass transportation which
can be implemented qJicklV and efficiently through the organization
of carpools at the level of management within Wheat Ridge businesses;
and
WHEREAS, the said program has been proved effective bV
Great Western Sugar Company and the Air Force Accounting and Finance
Center; and
WHEREAS, carpooling can help our city make more efficient
use of its existing transportation facilities through the shared use
of vehicles while offering the citizens of Wheat Ridge significant
savings on fuel, reductions in travel related expenses (auto maintenance
and insurance costs, and substantial cuts in parking fees); and
WHEREAS, the cost of said carpool program is a minimum cost
to the employer who implements it while performing a valid service
to employees; and
WHEREAS, air pollution, highway congestion, and freqJent
accidents are a direct result of an excess number of cars who usually
hold only one occupant...contributing to what is known as "rush-hour
traffic"; and
WHEREAS, the passage of Regulation Nine (9) makes it
mandatory bV April of 1975 that an employer of over fifty (50)
persons make available a carpool program to their employees subject
to enforcement under penalty of law; and
WHEREAS, the Wheat Ridge City Council can set an exa~ple
for the community at large bV taking an active supporting role in
promoting said carpool program of Downtown Denver, Incorporated;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, recommends that the business and
other interests of Wheat Ridge give full support to the concept of
carpooling;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it encourage and request that
the business community likewise support the implementation of carpool
programs in organizations of over fifty (50) persons by the Downtown
Denver, Incorporated, Carpool Office, and that it reqJest that the
RESOLUTION NO. 324
Series of 1974
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Wheat Ridge Chamber of Commerce likewise support the implementation
of said carpool program which is available through the Downtown
Denver, Incorporated Carpool Office.
DONE AND RESOLVED this 18th day of JulV, A. D., 1974,
by a vote of 5 to 0
ATTEST:
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