Car Sharing coming to Cork
Posted on December 13, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Cork, Motor Cars.
Michael Newham just left a comment on my post about car-sharing. It looks like this is going to happen next year. It’s a great idea.
Our company ‘Mendes - GoCar’ will be providing the car-sharing service in Cork City Centre. We hope to have it operational by May the 1st 2008.
Please see the Wikipedia article for a good overview of what Car-Sharing is about.
All our ‘GoCars’ will have dedicated parking spaces ‘GoBases’ near high residential and business nodes of population.
Research has shown that in a successful car-sharing business each car added to a car sharing fleet replaces 8 to 12 private vehicles; thus reducing Co2 emmissions and congestion.
Another benefit to joining a car-sharing service is the increased use of public transport as well as walking and cycling.
We hope to have our website www.gocar.ie live by mid January. It will just be a brochure based site to begin with where ye can leave contact details to find out about membership and so forth.
4 Replies to "Car Sharing coming to Cork"
conor on December 30, 2007
I’m sure there are plenty of people who travel in and out of Carrick-on-Shannon and similar larger towns to make it feasible?
Car Blog on February 8, 2008
Car sharing is brilliant, as said before halves or quaters the cost of travelling.
Michael Newham on March 5, 2008
Hi Rebecca and Conor,
We’re pushing out the introduction in Cork till July the 4th because of the massive VRT changes that occur on that date. We’ll start off with eight cars on the road - 3 Ford Focuses (Foci?), 4 Ford Fiestas and 1 Transit Connect for delivery’s and the like.
All will be low emission diesels with extra safety options and lots of helpful gizmos like bluetooth and sat-nav.
They’ll all be positioned in and around Cork City Centre.
We’ve made a decision to postpone the new website till about mid-May when it will be fully operational to allow new members to join and book cars.
By the way CarSharing for us is not ride-sharing or car-pooling, its basically the service by which you book a car for a number of hours, use it for those hours and get charged for those hours.
Regards,
Mike Newham
Rebecca (living sustainably in Sallygardens) on December 28, 2007
Thats really great news. When I lived in the UK we did it quite often, works out great for driver or passenger … half the cost of petrol/diesel and less cars on the road. I’ll mention this on my blog soon, I wonder if there will be one for Leitrim.