Guaranteed Ride Service
Many people who consider joining car or vanpools worry that they will be
left stranded if they have to work late or an emergency arises on days they
don’t have their cars at work. This service is being offered by Long Island
Transportation Management (LITM) to Commuter Choice Program rideshare
participants to help alleviate this concern. If an emergency should arise,
you want to know that you can get home. This service provides that security
and a ride when you need it.
Eligibility
Any BNL or DOE Brookhaven Area Office employee who is an active member of
a car or vanpool and has completed and returned the
BNL Rideshare Registration
Form (PDF) can use the service. Completed forms can be returned to BNL’s
Employee Transportation Coordinator, Jeffrey Williams, in Building 120 or
return by e-mail to jwilliams@bnl.gov.
Employees who are new to ridesharing must also complete and return the
BNL Rideshare Registration Form, after successfully making rideshare
arrangements with another BNL employee from the list of potential rideshare
partners provided by LITM. Each person who submits a BNL Rideshare
Registration Form will receive a Guaranteed Ride Voucher, which must be
presented to the taxi driver upon his arrival.
Service Rules
You may use the service when:
- Your supervisor requests that you work beyond scheduled hours
without advanced notice; or
- The regular driver of your car/vanpool leaves work early to respond
to an emergency or is required to work beyond scheduled hours without
advance notice; or
- You or a family member becomes ill or experiences a personal
emergency.
The service may not be used when:
- You need to run personal errands; or
- You stay late for personal reasons; or
- You have a pre-scheduled doctor’s appointment; or
- You stay after work for recreational activities, or
- You voluntarily work late or when you have been assigned preplanned
overtime
Procedures to use this service
For unexpected overtime, when you are a passenger in a car/vanpool:
- When you know that you will need a ride home, alert other
carpool/vanpool members to your situation to let them know you are
working late and are making other arrangements for a ride home after
work.
- Notify your supervisor that you need a ride home, and he or she
should contact Lindy’s Taxi at 473-0777 to arrange a taxi pick-up.
- When the taxi arrives, fill out the participant section of the
Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher that you received and have the driver
complete the driver section. Give the driver the white copy of the
voucher, in place of the fare, and keep the pink and blue copies.
- Within 5 working days, return the pink and blue copies of the
voucher to BNL’s Employee Transportation Coordinator, Jeff Williams, in
Building 120. Before a new Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher is issued, you
must complete and return the
Guaranteed Ride
Questionnaire (PDF).
For unexpected overtime, an emergency at home or illness to the driver of
your car/vanpool:
- When you know that you will need a ride home, you should contact
Lindy’s Taxi at 473-0777 to arrange a taxi pick-up.
- When the taxi arrives, fill out the participant section of the
Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher that you received and have the driver
complete the driver section. Give the driver the white copy of the
voucher, in place of the fare, and keep the pink and blue copies.
- Within 5 working days, return the pink and blue copies of the
voucher to BNL’s Employee Transportation Coordinator, Jeff Williams, in
Building 120. Before a new Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher is issued, you
must complete and return the
Guaranteed Ride
Questionnaire (PDF).
If you or a family member becomes ill or experiences a personal
emergency, and you are a passenger in a car/vanpool:
- Alert other carpool/vanpool members to your situation to let them
know you must leave work early.
- Notify your supervisor that you need a ride home and either your
supervisor or you can contact Lindy’s Taxi at 473-0777 to arrange a taxi
pick-up.
- When the taxi arrives, fill out the participant section of the
Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher that you received and have the driver
complete the driver section. Give the driver the white copy of the
voucher, in place of the fare, and keep the pink and blue copies.
- Within 5 working days, return the pink and blue copies of the
voucher to BNL’s Employee Transportation Coordinator, Jeff Williams, in
Building 120. Before a new Guaranteed Ride Home Voucher is issued, you
must complete and return the
Guaranteed Ride
Questionnaire (PDF).
* You will be responsible for any taxi charges from the original
destination to a secondary destination (e.g., child’s school to home).
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Last Modified: February 4, 2008
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