There’s some very exciting news for Brampton today: Car sharing is coming! Community Carshare is coming to Brampton in the Fall of 2014.

CarShare is coming to #Brampton! Sign up now to be first to know where vehicles will be located: http://t.co/jCGOxxlHnu — Community CarShare (@CarShareCoop) September 18, 2014

What is Carsharing?

Carsharing “is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who make only occasional use of a vehicle, as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type than they use day-to-day. The organization renting the cars may be a commercial business or the users may be organized as a company, public agency, cooperative, or ad hoc grouping.”

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carsharing)

Carsharing adds another tool to people who want to free themselves from car ownership: Providing access to cars only when they are needed. This addresses challenges in the suburbs where using transit might be possible to get to work, but a car is still required for other transportation needs such as weekends.

What is Community Carshare?

Community CarShare is a non-profit co-operative which provides its members access to vehicles on a self-serve, pay-per-use basis. The co-operative was founded in 1998 and operated first in Kitchener-Waterloo, adding service to Hamilton in 2009, Elmira, Guelph and St. Catharines in 2013, and London in 2014.

Community CarShare’s mission is to deliver a carsharing service and to promote carsharing as an important component of a sustainable transportation system. Through this the co-op seeks to reduce overall transportation costs, traffic congestion and air pollution, thus improving our community.

Reservations for CarShare vehicles can be made for as little as 30 minutes, or as long as needed, and gas and maintenance costs are included in driving rates. By filling in transportation gaps with occasional car use, Community CarShare also helps support the use of greener transportation modes such as transit and cycling. Many CarShare members also already own a car, but supplement their driving needs with CarShare reservations a few times a week.

(http://communitycarshare.ca/about-carshare/)

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