Carpooling is incredible for so many reasons! How else can you save time, money, and gas all in one? It might even be more fun. I am testing out an online service designed to help busy people who want to carpool. In my own situation, I have neighbors whose kids go to the same school as ours, but we don’t have access to a bus route and we all have to drive them. We just worked out a way to share the driving 3 days of the week, and I put it into this system at DivideTheRide.com. Here’s the page where you can "take a tour" of how it works.
We can see a calendar online with all of the assigned drivers indicated, and it’s supposed to send us a text message to remind us of our driving assignments. How cool! I’ll let you know how it’s working once school starts next week. I will be cutting my driving time literally in half for those days of the week.
In the meantime, if you are interested in other kinds of carpools, such as sharing rides to work, there are all kinds of sites dedicated to finding people who want to share. eRideShare, RideSearch, and iCarpool help you find a match securely for daily trips or even long distance drives, and Craigslist also has a rideshare category. Remember those "Who’s going to New York?" bulletin board flyers that used to be posted in college right before break? This is how college students do that now.
How do you coordinate sharing rides? How could you cut your commute in half, or at least get more reading done while you’re riding along?
Leave a Reply