UCLA Transportation earns state environmental award for carpool efforts
By Sam Hoff
Jan. 23, 2015 9:30 a.m.
The California Environmental Protection Agency awarded UCLA Transportation the state’s highest environmental award, the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, at an event in Sacramento on Wednesday.
The organization presented awards to 12 individuals, companies and organizations whose practices protect the environment, according to a CalEPA press release.
UCLA Transportation was awarded for its work aimed at reducing the number of faculty and students who commute alone to campus. About half of the university’s employees and one quarter of its students drive alone to campus, which UCLA said it thinks is related to the alternative transportation programs available, such as the BruinBus, vanpools and campus bike lanes.
Compiled by Sam Hoff, Bruin senior staff.
