Carpooling may be the quickest and possibly the easiest remedy for high gas prices. In knowing this, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is reworking its system of helping people around the state organize carpools. A new website is set to be online this fall for people to coordinate sharing rides or taking the bus, says VTrans' public transit administrator Chuck Gallagher. The new site aims to be more user friendly with the hopes of linking people to additional forms of alternative transportation. At present Vermont offers 12 commuter bus routes to get people to and from work. Mr. Gallagher says the legislature added another $350,000 to the budget that funds these routes. The new website will offer "one-stop shopping" for transportation options of which carpooling and these bus routes will be a part. [Source: VPR]
Carpooling
Carpooling may be the quickest and possibly the easiest remedy for high gas prices. In knowing this, the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) is reworking its system of helping people around the state organize carpools. A new website is set to be online this fall for people to coordinate sharing rides or taking the bus, says VTrans' public transit administrator Chuck Gallagher. The new site aims to be more user friendly with the hopes of linking people to additional forms of alternative transportation. At present Vermont offers 12 commuter bus routes to get people to and from work. Mr. Gallagher says the legislature added another $350,000 to the budget that funds these routes. The new website will offer "one-stop shopping" for transportation options of which carpooling and these bus routes will be a part. [Source: VPR]
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