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Tuesday 3rd June 2008

Share a car, share a walk or a school run

Edinburgh Technopole. Courtesy: http://www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk

Edinburgh Technopole (not exactly in the Centre of Edinburgh) would like to encourage its occupiers to become a member of Tripshare Midlothian. As a member, you will be able to quickly and easily find someone who shares your specific journeys. Read on as the service is backed by an organisation offering lots more ways of sharing travel

You will also be able to:
• Share your travel costs
• Help reduce congestion
• Help reduce pollution
• On average save around £800 per year
For more information, please visit: http://www.tripsharemidlothian.com/

A visit to this website however is engaging because the site is hosted, or backed onto Liftshare.org.

News from this organisation is that drivers across the UK are currently seeking ways to reduce the impact of rising fuel costs, with over 300 new members a day have been signing up to the liftshare network. 

Motorists who share their daily journey with just one other person are already saving an average of £1,000 a year in petrol costs - a figure which looks set to keep rising - and we have seen a steep increase in drivers signing up as petrol prices show no signs of coming down.  The new registrations have taken the overall membership of the liftshare network to more than 230,000. 

"The number of new members registering has increased every month this year, but May has seen a dramatic surge on previous months," said Ali Clabburn. "Car-sharing has numerous advantages - financial, environmental, social - but right now it is above all those being hit most by the fuel prices who are recognising its potential value in their own daily lives."

Research for organisations travel needs
Liftshare is willing to assist employers, school and the like in designing and conducting a travel survey for your business, school, hospital or organisation. We have extensive experience of conducting travel surveys, and are able to deliver software to facilitate the process. Our approach delivers findings that highlight the needs and expectations of all staff and visitors to your site, whilst also suggesting possible solutions to your transport problems.

And its website also offers you CarBUDI, BikeBUDI, TaxiBUDI and WalkBUDI. It  even has a sister site at http://www.school-run.org which is self explanatory.

But they're still missing one
Come on Liftshare get a DogwalkBUDI as well. Gaberlunzie equipped with a young lurcher, ("ah, a proper dog" as someone put it) desperately needs a locally based walker with a fast running dog, who could share car trips to empty spaces and let the dogs exercise themselves, while the humans walk and talk!

Webs: http://www.tripsharemidlothian.com
http://www.liftshare.org/solutions/default.asp
http://www.school-run.org

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