Retrospective coverage for October 14, 2026. First published October 26, 2026 06:07 -07:00 (Pacific time). This is an AI-assisted brief compiled from linked public source records; the coverage date is not the publication date.
The Port of San Diego announced Oct. 14 that its employee commuter program had received SANDAG’s highest Diamond Award designation for a fifth consecutive year. The Platinum-tier recognition focuses on employers’ support for alternatives to driving alone. Port announcement
The Port reported that 68 percent of employees in its latest commuter survey traveled alone, below the award program’s threshold of 80 percent. That figure describes the agency’s surveyed workforce, not commuting patterns across the region.
Its incentives include reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs for public transit, carpools and vanpools, including monthly bus, trolley and train passes. The agency also listed hybrid work arrangements, bicycle-commuter showers and changing rooms, employee electric-vehicle charging and transportation information for new hires.
The Port said it had supplemented those benefits with Bike Anywhere Day activities and vanpool information sessions. The agency presented the commuter benefits as one element of its climate-action work.