Ten months after Car2Go reduced its Denver service area significantly, the car-sharing service says it plans Tuesday to again allow users to drop off and pick up its blue-and-white Smart cars in seven east and southeast neighborhoods

The Daimler-owned company says the restoration of those neighborhoods to its Home Area is in response to membership trends and requests to add them. The newly restored areas are South Park Hill, Hale, Montclair, Washington Park, Washington Park West, Platte Park and Rosedale.

In the southeast, the additions will make Car2Go’s service area continuous, no longer leaving the area near the University of Denver as an island. In the car-sharing system, which has 333 cars scattered across central Denver, users pay by the minute and must end rentals by parking within the service area in legal public street spots or designated spots.

Several lower-income neighborhoods that were axed last September because of low membership still will be left out of Car2Go’s service area.

“It was based on the member demand,” Car2Go Denver general manager Mike Pletsch said about the restored areas. “The members were coming to us with these very specific neighborhoods, so the decision was based off the member demand. We’re not opposed to expanding further,” based on demand.

More than 8,000 members were drawn out of Car2Go’s coverage area when the company eliminated neighborhoods last year.

But the service has grown more popular since then, with membership increasing to more than 43,000 from about 35,000, Pletsch said.