February 2010 eNews Slash the fixed costs of vehicle ownership and join the movement to low carbon mobility today. Happy Metal Tiger Year! Twelve reasons to join CarShareHFX this year: Save substantially over the cost of vehicle ownership. Enjoy the use of car anytime without the bother of owning one: Insurance, fuel, maintenance and MacPass – all included. Help reduce the number of cars on the road and vehicle emissions while maintaining your vehicle mobility. Enjoy the use of really fine energy efficient, low emission vehicles. Use any car in the CarShareHFX fleet – anytime – reserve your car up to three months in advance. Pay for vehicle transportation as you need it, when you need it. Don't pay for a vehicle to sit idle in the driveway and don't drive everywhere just because you own a vehicle. use all your mobility options, walk, bike, bus – and when you need a vehicle Car Share – it's there! Drive confidently in adverse winter driving conditions with all vehicles equipped with snow tires (at no extra cost). Save on parking expenses: Park free at all CarShareHFX designated spots and at Waterfront Development Corporation Pay and Display Lots on the Halifax Waterfront. Use roof racks for recreation or for hauling oversize items on selected vehicles. Take advantage of over a dozen great deals offered by CarShareHFX Mobility & Community Partners Be part of the movement for a cleaner greener Halifax. Be conspicuous with your CarShareHFX Keyfob (after-all it grants access to all nine cars in the CarShareHFX fleet). Let people know you care! More and more you'll find people saying CarSharing is Grrrrreeeeeeaaaaat! CarShareHFX takes the Gold for New Business of the Year And the message here is: Business can make a difference, so let's get down to business! Pam Cooley accepts the New Business of the Year Globe Award from Richard Southcott of Stewart McKelvey with Valerie Payn, President of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce looking on at the 10th Annual Halifax Business Awards. Photo by Dean Casavechia. Extending your range: 200 km free per reservation. Starting in March 2010 and ever after, CarShareHFX members get an extra 50 kilometers free with each reservation, 200 km in total. This means you can make round trips to Bridgewater, Wolfville, Truro, almost all the way to Sheet Harbour on the Eastern Shore, and everywhere in between. The CarShareHFX billing program automatically charges 32¢ per kilometer after 200 km per 24 hours. On the other hand, with your extended CarShareHFX range, you can easily take a trip to Lunenburg, or Mahone Bay, go skiing at Martock or Kayaking anywhere from here to Taylor Head -- all for no more than CarShareHFX's normal hourly rates. Green Transportation for Environmentally-friendly Paint. Charles and Andrea use CarShare to pick up paint at Acadia & Quigley on Quinpool Road for their new house! A great crowd and a Sea of Pink! To mark a major birthday this month Pam Cooley organized a lunch at Brussels Restaurant followed by a Halifax Rainmen Basketball game with the Quebec Kebs – all as a really successful fundraiser for Breast Cancer Research. Inset: Pam and Andre Levingston, of our new professional B-ball team the Halifax Rainmen. A Reminder: Waterfront Winterfest presented by WDCL Feb. 26-28, Halifax Waterfront Find out more Coming up from CarShareHFX member Diane Laundy's recent work, in which modern architecture is abstracted, re-imagined, and playfully re-assembled into quilt-like patterns, will be on exhibit at ViewPoint Gallery, 1272 Barrington Street, Halifax from March 3rd - 28th, 2010. In the News Sharing the road: The number of drivers turning to car sharing is forecast to grow eightfold by 2016 Toronto Star, February 20, 2010 "...there's a positive feedback loop with car sharing. "More utilization begets more cars which begets more members, which begets more utilization," and so on." Carsharing: A Sustainable and Innovative Personal Transport Solution with Great Potential and Huge Opportunities Frost & Sullivan, January 28, 2010 "The two major social benefits of carsharing are fewer vehicles on the road and lower emissions. Research from Frost & Sullivan estimates that, on average, each shared vehicle replaced 15 personally owned vehicles in 2009, and carsharing members drove 31 percent less than when they owned a personal vehicle. These two factors translate into 482,170 fewer tons of CO2 emissions and less travel congestion in urban areas." Car sharing - Driving the Way to a Greener Future Frost & Sullivan, February 18, 2010 "As the population swells and clusters increasingly in urban centers, appetites for personal convenience surge and the environment suffers. The increasingly urgent need to address consequent issues, and especially the pressing need to mitigate climate change, have fueled interest in alternative transportation modes. One of the most innovative and promising of these is car sharing, a personal transportation solution based on shared, self-service, on-demand, pay-as-you-use, short-term vehicle usage." 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