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Media Contact:
Morgan Lyons
or Myia Rogers
July 1, 1998
Transamerica and the EPA loin DART's E-Pass program
DART E-Pass Hits a Home Run with Major Companies
Hundreds of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Transamerica employees are reaping the
rewards of the DART's E-Pass, the commuter benefit that allows employees the option to use the
entire DART bus and rail system free of charge every day, for pleasure and work.
The E-Pass has been on the market for just over a year. The program is designed to promote transit
ridership in the region. Companies purchase the deeply discounted E-Pass for employees that are
good for unlimited travel on all regular DART services. More than 2,500 employees from 12
companies like Hunt Oil, EDS, and Bank of America are eligible to take full advantage of the benefits
provided byE-Pass.
Transamerica's E-Pass investment opens the door of DART's system of buses, commuter rail and
light rail for its 575 regular full time employees in downtown Dallas. Many Transamerica employees
were DART customers before E-Pass. That, along with an employee vote in support of E-Pass,
made the company's decision easy.
According to Carma Potter, Transamerica human resources assistant, adding E-Pass to their
benefits package "puts the employees first." Potter said employees took to the program immediately:
literally "camping out" at the doors of the Human Resources Department anxiously awaiting the
arrival of the passes.
Not only is the DART E-Pass a sound economic choice for employers, it is good for the environment
too. More people in public transit, means fewer people in single-occupant cars.
The environmental angle got the Dallas office of the EPA on-board. E-Pass helps them "walk the
walk," and not just "talk the talk" as the federal agency most involved with environmental issues. The
agency has 809 regular full time employees in their downtown Dallas office.
"I think it (E-Pass) is wonderful," said Trish Grice, employee transportation coordinator for the EPA.
"The employees are very happy with the E-Pass. They were already a part of our DART-supported
vanpool. And employees who rode DART buses and trains are happy that they don't have to go out
on their own and buy the passes anymore."
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Lyons, Morgan & Rogers, Myia. DART E-Pass Hits a Home Run with Major Companies, text, July 1, 1998; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1226903/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).