Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Car Sharing

City Continues Slow Growth Model for Car Share

By Damien Newton | Aug 17, 2011 | 14 Comments

Last week, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation released a report on the slow-growth success of car sharing in Los Angeles. LADOT recommended renewing its program of providing free on-street parking for Zip Car vehicles up to 40 spaces so that the current level of car share is preserved while other options are examined. Even […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: Car-Sharing

By Robin Urban Smith | Mar 4, 2011 | No Comments

In the third episode of our Moving Beyond the Automobile series, Streetfilms takes a look at a more efficient way to use cars. Unlike owning a car, which involves a large upfront purchase and low costs per trip, car-sharing allows people to evaluate the full cost of each car trip. When car-share members choose whether […]

California’s Personal Vehicle Sharing Law Could Diminish Need to Own a Car

By Matthew Roth | Oct 1, 2010 | No Comments

As more teens wait to get their licenses and young adults drive fewer miles annually, advertisers have begun to point to advances in digital technology to explain the trend. Many younger adults use digital media to connect to their friends virtually, the argument goes, and technological innovations will likely reduce the incentive to own and […]

California Poised to Allow Personal Vehicle Sharing Services

By Matthew Roth | Apr 28, 2010 | No Comments

Photo: The Sierra Club Car sharing is a growth industry, as pioneer City CarShare would tell you, and it has beneficial environmental and economic impacts. Studies of car sharing services like Zipcar and City CarShare show that for every car that is shared, up to 15 private vehicles are taken off the road. Owning and […]

City Celebrates Expanded Zip Car Near UCLA and USC

By Damien Newton | Sep 14, 2009 | 33 Comments

Photo: Poppyseed Bandit/Flickr Earlier today Mayor Villaraigosa, city officials, and representatives from Zipcar, UCLA and USC celebrated the arrival of 12 new off-campus parking spaces reserved specifically for car-sharing near the two college campuses. The hope is that if these spaces prove profitable for the car-sharing company than they can partner with the city for […]

Daily Breeze Makes a Pitch for Bike and Car Sharing

By Damien Newton | Mar 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

In an editorial earlier today, the Daily Breeze, a newspaper covering the area between LAX and the Harbor, praised the city for moving ahead with a car sharing program and studying bike share. In its own words the Breeze made the case for shared vehicles and managed to do it without calling supporters communists: With […]

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