Zoo becomes 'Partner in Transit'

Metro has another partnership program that will soon be more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

The transit agency is teaming up with the Woodland Park Zoo [external link] to offer zoo members a chance to reduce their drive-alone trips and earn some incentives. Within the next week, Metro and the zoo will invite the 38,000 members who receive the zoo's magazine to "take a pledge" to reduce two drive-alone trips a week over a period of eight weeks.

Participants will be offered Metro Free Ride tickets, an extra zoo guest pass, and an opportunity to request information that can help them switch to alternative modes. As part of the partnership, the Partners in Transit program will be promoted through zoo publications. The program helps the zoo support its mission of sustainability, conservation and education.

And this Sunday on Mother's Day, Metro is offering free shuttle service to the zoo from the Northgate Transit Center for the "Mom & Me at the Zoo" event. The free shuttle will run between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

This will be the second "Partners in Transit" agreement for Metro, after the program's launch last year with PCC Natural Markets.