The HRM wants to have further feedback from us about how we feel about transit options and what we want in this city. They even have a place where you can support carsharing on the first page! Where it says CarShareHFX cars you can put the number “9″ as this is how many cars you have available to you. Also, where it says suggestions, may we suggest you put “partner with carsharehfx for package discount”.

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Let them know carsharing is part of the mobility puzzle to decrease the ownership and use of personal use vehicles. If we support carsharing, we grow and have more access to cars and transit gets better, people will feel confident they can give up their cars and use transit and carshare, bikes and their feet to get around!

As a business or a workplace you are probably not in the fleet or car business. But employees have to get around and you are responsible for that. You probably use taxis or rentals or…the dreaded expense sheet for personal use vehicles.

Do you really know the transportation costs of your business/workplace? Do you want accurate records? Do you want your employees to be completely covered by insurance and want to be a “greener” company?

Running a business or an organization has enough challenges…you shouldn’t have to worry about running your own company cars or fleets or depend on your staff for accurate records. Before now, Haligonians didn’t have a choice, now they do. 

Check out “The Company Car” option from CarShareHFX…it just might be the solution to these times when you want to save money and have accurate records.

The vision for the city is businesses and organizations creating more options for their employees.

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Pam had a nice, close-up interview with Ashley King, content editor of Haligonia.ca , a local online broadcast website with some great content of things in and around Halifax. Ashley dropped by our launch at City Centre Atlantic and then interviewed Pam on Thursday, December 4th. Watch the video below!

Been thinking about joining?  Now is a great time! Sign up  to both CarShareHFX and The Hub daybreakers divx we’ll give you $100 off your membership fee at each organization.

CarShareHFX and The Hub have forged an Earth Day Alliance to make it easier for more people in Halifax to Share Resources.  Why rent your own office or buy your own car, when you could get what you need for less money and hassle by sharing?  We are Social Enterprises based on using resources more creatively and efficiently.  That’s good news when we have a tough economy and a stressed planet.

Come and see us and some of our members on Earth Day at Victoria Park. We will be there from 10 am until 6 pm. We will also be at NSCC - LEEDs campus and Pam will be speaking to Provincial Government Employees at the Maritime Centre over the noon hour to talk about CarShareHFX.

Come and see us if you are around Victoria Park!

Big car or little car? These pictures were taken recently by CarShareHFX partner Peter Zimmer in the south end of Halifax. We see the big Hummer confronting the Toyota Matrix and one wonders? Where is the future of cars? Do we need the big behemoth? Even if gas prices have fallen since 2008, the cost of operating a car is very high, about $16,000 a year for the average Canadian (gas, repairs, parking, maintenance, insurance etc.)

At some point, I’m sure many more of us will ask “do I need such a large vehicle?” which couples with “what kind of carbon footprint am I leaving for my children?” and perhaps more than that, its just the costs and the way we use transportation.

What do you think? Will we always drive large vehicles? Will smaller cars become the norm? What about hybrid cars? Will they become popular?

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HI all, CarShareHFX is about alternative transportation…

Having problems with the HRM parking ban? Worried about the widening of streets? So are we…

There are so many ways to create ways to decrease traffic congestion and to not be affected by the parking ban. We need a fabric of transportation options so people can give up their cars. This is not rocket science, we do not need to re-create the wheel. What we need is to learn from other cities like Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle and Houston. These city governments are building no vehicle zones, safe bike paths, using carshare cars for their fleet and transportation needs instead of owning their own cars and increasing availability to public transit buses. It is the perfect combination. Is there a downside???

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