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Greenlee will drive home a different silver Honda this evening. His own car, a 1987 Ford Thunderbird, has sat unused in his garage for the past four months. During that time, Greenlee has shared 12 natural-gas Hondas with 60 strangers in an experiment called CarLink. The program is run by researchers at the University of California at Davis, who believe that car sharing can encourage mass-transit use while reducing pollution and traffic. It saves Greenlee money: he pays just $200 a month--covering insurance, fuel and maintenance--to have a Civic for himself at night and on weekends...
...past they drove the entire way from home to their jobs--60 miles round-trip--because the bus service connecting BART to the lab was slow and unreliable. Now they take BART to Pleasanton and, for $60 a month, zip from the station to the lab in a CarLink Honda. They finish office tasks on the train and keep more sensible hours in order to get the Honda back to the BART station in time for a nighttime sharer. "This has eliminated a lot of the stress and anxiety of commuting," Glassley says...
...next driver. No one needs car F, so I take it for a quick spin. According to Susan Shaheen, 32, the graduate student who runs CarLink, car-sharing organizations have flourished in Europe and Japan. Switzerland has 600 of them. This summer Seattle plans to launch a sharing program using 200 cars...
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