Leave the car at home, and get discounts at Morristown stores and restaurants.
Good for the planet, good for your wallet!
That’s the pitch from TransOptions, one of the exhibitors today at Morristown Memorial Hospital’s Earth Day celebration.
Go to the TransOptions website and sign up for a GoSmart card. You pledge to take alternative transit at least once a week– a train, a bike, your sneakers–and they send you a card good for 10 percent off at Raul’s Empanadas, Zebu Forno and the Running Company.
“With gas prices going up, we’re trying to do a lot of things to help people,” said Judy Bortman, a spokesperson for TransOptions, an alliance of business and government partnerships to help commuters in northwestern New Jersey.
TransOptions also can hook you up with carpooling partners, and emergency rides home. And on May 19, the organization will offer a free breakfast to bike commuters between 6:30 am and 8:30 am at the Hyatt Morristown, as part of Bike to Work Week.
Helping Judy today is Anne Vivino. She is part of New Jersey royalty. Her husband’s cousins are comic Uncle Floyd Vivino and his brothers, Jimmy and Jerry Vivino, who play in Conan O’Brien’s band.
Anne said the family parties are a-mazing. Maybe they should create a GoFloyd card, too!
