SANDAG offers prizes and other incentives to those who commute sustainably in March

Our regional transportation and planning agency wants to increase the number of commuters who take transit, carpool, vanpool, walk, bike, ride a motorcycle or scooter, or telecommute.

iCommuteSD.com is rewarding commuters who choose a more sustainable way of getting to work or school with monthly prize drawings.

March prizes include a monthly transit pass on Compass Card, eLiveLife health and wellness gift certificates, a free membership and 45 free minutes for Car2Go, Birch Aquarium VIP passes, Suki Spa gift certificates, an iCommute Prize Pack, movie passes, and gift cards for Jiffy Lube, Starbucks, Albertsons, and restaurants around the region.

Anyone who takes transit, carpools, vanpools, walks, bikes, rides a motorcycle or scooter, telecommutes or has a compressed workweek schedule and tracks at least eight trips per month is eligible. That’s only four days a month! (Each one-way trip counts.) Simply log a minimum of eight commute or SchoolPool trips using the iCommute TripTracker tool to be automatically entered for chances to win. Get started now and be sure to log your trips all month. Winners are drawn on the first Wednesday of each month. For complete contest rules, visit 511sd.com/iCommute and click on TripTracker.

For more information, visit 511sd.com/iCommute or call 511 and say, “iCommute.”

I’m not entirely sure how a prize from Jiffy Lube will encourage San Diegans to ditch the car in favor of every other mode of transportation, but I hope that there is some sound reasoning behind that offering.