HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 18 Correspondence from Christopher Monnette, Royal Caribbean, Springfield, Oregon Regarding the Pioneer Parkway EmX Project
@ Royal Caribbean International
1000 Royal Caribbean Way
Springfield, OR 97477
March 4, 2008
Mayor Sid Leiken and Springfield City Councilors
City Manager's Office
225 Fifth Street
Springfield, OR 97477
Dear Mayor Leiken and Councilors:
Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. strongly urges your support of the Pioneer Parkway/EmX
project.
Conveniently located public transportation is essential for our workforce. Before we
selected this site for our facility, we made certain that our employees would have access
to that type of reliable transportation, We met with officials from the Lane Transit
District and were excited to learn that our facility would be close to the new bus rapid
transit line planned for the area, This was clearly a contributing factor in our decision to
build and invest in our Springfield facility,
Since moving to the Gateway area, and into our facility in early 2006, we have nearly
doubled the number of our employees and our building is not yet fulL During the next
few years we will continue our growth towards maximum capacity of approximately
1,000 employees, To encourage our employees to use the bus, we are taking part in Lane
Transit District's Group Pass program. We have invested with LID to fund additional
bus service to our facility; however the majority of our staff continues to depend upon
their privately owned vehicles due to limited service in the Gateway area. The
Springfield segment of the bus rapid transit system will increase the service in to
Gateway, making it even more convenient and more frequently used by our employees
and those of our neighboring businesses.
There is a great deal of momentum surrounding growth in Springfield, particularly in
the Gateway area. We encourage you to help maintain this momentum through your
support of the Pioneer Parkway EmX project.
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Christopher T. Monnette
Director, Reservations