It's basic math, really. Sixty bucks for a tank of gas divided by one
wallet is 60 bucks. Sixty bucks for a tank of gas divided by four
wallets is only 15. Car-pooling is cost effective (and easier on the
environment). And it's up in and around Ann Arbor.
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The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority van and car pooling program
now has 3,588 participants, a 15 percent increase over last year, says
Mary Stasiak, AATA community relations manager.
Web-based ride-sharing sites have made finding potential matches easier.
A search on Erideshare.com for car pools to a downtown Ann Arbor zip code returned 90 hits. The U-M Greenride
Web portal has more than 2,500 users after its launch only a couple of
months ago, said David Miller, U-M director for parking and
transportation.
More than 2,500 employees have registered with the site so far, he
said. Fourteen new van pools and 15 new car pools have registered with
U-M to date. Overall, ride-sharing is up 8 percent among cars and 20
percent in the van-sharing program - and those are the just the
ride-shares that U-M has registered.
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