“It’s common for businesses to pay for an employee’s parking, but if a proposal now before the D.C. City Council becomes law, companies that pay for parking will have to offer that same benefit for other modes of transportation: Metro Rail, bus, even walking or biking.”
Yes! OR don’t subsidize parking in the first place.
“The employer was going to spend the money anyway,” Allen said. “But if the employee chooses not to drive their car or if they don’t have a car, then now that value can be transferred to help support their transit, their way of getting back and forth to work.”