Car share

Do you work regular hours at work? Are you making a long journey this weekend? Are you worried about the amount of pollution created by your car? Do you want to help stop global warming?

Perhaps you should consider car sharing.

If you work regular hours at work and use a car to get there, why not give a lift to one of your colleagues? Then the following week, they can give you a lift into work. Your travelling costs are halved instantly and for half the year you can get to work stress free! Each car share also reduces the amount of traffic on the roads, which can help reduce traffic jams, which means even less fuel is wasted by idling engines.

Often companies send several people to a training course at once as it is cheaper to bulk buy the course than to send each person individually. If you're part of a group like this, why not meet up beforehand and then share the car journey to the training site? (Another alternative is to get the tutor to come to your workplace if suitable training facilities exist at your work site)

You may not know anyone at work who lives in your area, but that's not to say they don't exist. Wouldn't it be great if you could find other like-minded people wanting to halve carbon emissions! Liftshare is a site that offers you the chance to do just that. I've added my details to the site. I'll let you know if anyone contacts me and how it went.

If you're a car sharer, let us know by leaving a comment at the end of this post, especially if you've got any tips!

caldini

Update: National Liftshare Day is on the 14th June 2005. Visit the website for more details and then tell all your friends about it - for example, you could add the link to http://www.nationalliftshareday.com at the bottom of your emails.