Rochester Is Getting On Board ROC Transit Day

This article was scraped from Rochester Subway. This is a blog about Rochester history and urbanism has not been published since 2017. The current owners are now publishing link spam which made me want to preserve this history.. The original article was published June 04, 2013 and can be found here.

ROC Transit Day is coming. Lose your car keys on June 20, 2013.

A few short weeks ago I told you about ROC Transit Day 2013 . The idea is simple... pedestrians make for a vibrant city. The more people Rochester has walking the streets instead of driving, the stronger our community will be; and the stronger our local economy will be. ROC Transit Day is a holiday from our cars. It's a day to celebrate local businesses. And it's a day to cast a symbolic vote for a stronger transit system...

Rochester's business community is quickly catching on. Over the past two weeks the ROC Transit Day map

has begun to fill up with restaurants, merchants, and businesses who understand why this effort is so important. From Downtown Rochester to Avon NY, businesses are stepping up and offering fantastic deals for anyone who rides the bus on June 20.

But with just under three weeks to go, we still see large areas of Rochester that aren't represented. So we need YOUR help...

Do have a job?

If so, ask your employer (your manager or your HR person) why they haven't contacted us for some FREE fare cards

. Email us or use the contact form

Do run a business?

Get your business on our interactive map

. All you need to do is tell us what you plan to offer transit riders on June 20. We'll actively promote your business on Facebook and Twitter and will help drive customers to you. Email us or use the sponsor form

now.

You don't sell anything? That's ok. Ask us to give you some FREE fare cards

for your employees to use. It's too easy! Just email us or use the contact form

Are you unemployed or independently wealthy?

Even YOU can help! We need volunteers to help us give away free prizes to transit riders on June 20. Email us or use the contact form

and let us know you'd like to volunteer. You'll get a free fare card, a free T-shirt, and you'll make lots of people smile.

Rochester Is Getting On Board ROC Transit Day

Do have a job?

Do run a business?

Are you unemployed or independently wealthy?

Add your business or organization to this growing list...

Chris Gemignani