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I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.

While getting feedback from our paid intern's experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.

Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn't they get all the help they need? They're young, they have a busy life and they're trying their best.

But my coworker (who drives) said, "Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over."

Now my internal "Fuck Cars" position is battling with my "Give the Interns everything".

I'm not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

At my work everybody gets a monthly bonus for transportation. It's roughly the same amount of money as monthly parking. But, if you don't drive, then it's just a bonus. I think that's more fair than only giving money to certain people for certain things.

[–] The_Caretaker@urbanists.social 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

@technocrit @VitoRobles
In Japan, nearly all employers pay for your monthly train pass and if you live far enough from a train station, they will pay your bus fare to and from the train station. When I worked in Central Tokyo my train pass was about $300 a month with the conversion rate at the time. You are also covered by the employer's industrial accident insurance while traveling between work and home. If you get hurt, the employer has to compensate you.
#FuckCars #Japan

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 4 points 12 hours ago

I don't really know what town or how good the public transit is, but interns don't really make anything. Advocating for a transit allowance or something that could cover public transit and could be used to help with parking could be good. If they live in town, going over biking or transit options with them could also be good, and maybe also "park and ride" options as well. But yeah, $18 daily when you're an intern isn't easy.

[–] cyclista937@slrpnk.net 2 points 13 hours ago

Maybe take them to lunch on transit to help ease the scary new things factor of taking transit. Once they're comfortable they may be more inclined to do it for a commute.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was an intern and first moved to the city, all I had ever known was driving to get everywhere. The suburb I grew up in didn't have any public transit other than school buses.

I think for a lot of Americans (making an assumption here), they don't even consider modes other than driving. Maybe as part of orientation you can explain the public transit options available.

[–] VitoRobles 12 points 1 day ago

That's a really good idea! I'll float that to the trainer.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Better outcome: people being compensated for greener/healthier commuting. Walk, you young MFers!

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 day ago

Yeah, free transit passes is a good push in the right direction.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They prolly live in suburbs because of crime in the city... So public transit is too high risk for these elites

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Not necessarily even that. It used to take me 24 minutes to drive to work and over two hours to take a bus. It’s not reasonable to ask someone to add an extra four hours to their shift imo

[–] choccymalk@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Both have been said, but just to reinforce: I think a combination of an information campaign (send an email, put up a sign in the break room) about local transit options and maybe some subsidy for transit could solve the problem.

I know around me a lot of companies provide employees with a regional transit pass.