{"id":2655,"date":"2008-01-11T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2008-01-11T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T21:38:33","slug":"casual-carpooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/01\/11\/casual-carpooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual carpooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1366\/952046697_5c8a4d7a73.jpg\" height=\"333\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I recently received my <a href=\"http:\/\/americancity.org\/current_issue.php\">newest copy<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/americancity.org\/\"><em>The Next American City<\/em><\/a> &#8212; a magazine similar to Spacing, but focused on all of the US of A. One article that caught my eye was a piece about <strong>casual carpooling<\/strong> (called &#8220;Collective Hitch-hiking&#8221; by Mollie Lee) in the San Francisco East Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works: people meet at designated spots for pick-up, mostly bus or subway stations. The rides are a first-come, first-serve basis with no reservations to be made. You line up and get in the next available car (though you have the right to wait for a vehicle or person you are comfortable with, a good policy especially for women driving with strangers). Most pick-up areas have a &#8220;connecting&#8221; or designated drop-off spot in downtown San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>The financial benefits are good too: carpooling exempts car owners from the $4 Bay Bridge toll (about $1,000 a year in savings). The &#8220;hitch-hiker&#8221; saves money from not taking a trip on the BART system (costs about $3 to $4 depending on your final destination).<\/p>\n<p>Carpoolers can check out a web site called <a href=\"http:\/\/ridenow.org\/\/carpool\/\">RideNow.org<\/a> to see if any bad drivers\/trips have been reported. An <a href=\"http:\/\/ridenow.org\/\/carpool\/what.htm\">etiquette guide<\/a> is also available (don&#8217;t wear stinky perfume, driver determines chattiness of the drive, don&#8217;t adjust the radio without permission, etc).<\/p>\n<p>I have yet to hear of anything similar in Toronto or the GTA. In a relatively friendly city like Toronto, where crime is low compared to similar sized American cities, a program like this should be able to flourish. Or maybe we just need tolls on the highways leading into the city to make something like this possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/mute.rigent.com\">Miles Storey<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received my newest copy of The Next American City &#8212; a magazine similar to Spacing, but focused on all of the US of A. One article that caught my eye was a piece about casual carpooling (called &#8220;Collective Hitch-hiking&#8221; by Mollie Lee) in the San Francisco East Bay Area. 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