Metro co-hosts national transportation workshop

National leaders in public transportation and environmental sustainability are gathered in Seattle this week, as King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit co-host the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) third annual Sustainability and Public Transportation Workshop.

The conference is the premier event on best practices in sustainable public transportation. King County is well suited to host the workshop.

Metro, which provides over 100 million passenger trips a year, is recognized as being one of the greenest transit agencies in North America. It operates the largest vanpool program and articulated hybrid bus fleet in the nation and powers that fleet with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel. It’s also the first transit agency in the nation to join the Chicago Climate Exchange, North America’s only voluntary carbon reduction and trading system.