Car-sharing will hit Vermont within the year. 84 Vermont residents gathered at Main Street Landing in Burlington last week to learn more about Green Mountain Car-Share - a car-sharing program that is set to start in Burlington with the support of the city and the University of Vermont. The soon to be non-profit organization concentrated on creating a convenient and socially/environmentally friendly alternative to car ownership hopes to have 125 members when their cars first hit the streets of Burlington. Anne Bourdon, lead organizer of Green Mt. Car-Share and co-founder of City CarShare in San Francisco, intends to spread throughout the Green Mountain State in the years to come after what she and others are confident will be a successful program in Vermont's largest city - Burlington. This is the first attempt to bring car-sharing to a more rural setting in the United States. [Sources: Burlington Free Press & The View]
2 comments:
Hey - don't forget that carsharing is already in Vermont! Middlebury has a couple of Zipcars.
You stand correction on this being the first attempt. When Peter Clavelle was Mayor, there was a great deal of planning to bring car share to Burlington, I personally worked with the Mayor, Good News Garage, and the owners of the the train station, Melinda et al to try to bring this to fruition. It disappeared with the collapse of plans for the Burlington multi-modal transportation center project. It is now perhaps spurred on by the common happening of $3.00/gal. fuel and the hint of recession in the air.
Walk, ride your bike, take the bus, and SAVE!
Bob
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