Posts Tagged ‘cars by the hour.’
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Go Get, Australia’s largest carshare company had a neat story in their latest newsletter.
The City of Sydney is helping to make carsharing even more convenient, by adding bicycle parking rings to some of the sign poles next to carshare pods.
So if you need to cycle to a car that might be a little far to walk – say you want a car to shoot out shopping- you can lock up your bike while you drive out there.
You can then drop your new flatpacks, rugs, scented candles, and ergonomic pillows at home, and then return the car back to its pod, before cycling back home!
We’ve sent the idea to Auckland Council, so hopefully the new onstreet car park signs might have a bike ring! Did you see the brightly painted carshare space! COOL
Tags: Auckland Council, bikes, bikeshare, biking, car share, cars by the hour., Cityhop, Go Get, how to live without a car. cityhop, Sydney City Council
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Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Cityhop has a number of business partners who provide car parks to it. We and our members can’t thank them enough for recognising carshare works! And we thought more people should know about their forward thinking.
Many of the people who have donated a car park to us also use car share. So who are these thoughtful organisations? Maybe you might like to see if your company is interested in having its own carshare car on site? We are always looking for new locations. Give us a call on 374 5081
First up, Isthmus whose car park is in Sale St. Gavin Lister, a director of Isthmus decided to give up his own private park for car share so he and his team as well as members of the public can carshare instead of owning their own car. Isthmus is a New Zealand-based design practice with an international profile in executing award-winning landscape architecture, urban design and landscape planning.
Massey University was next. Their SHORE and Whariki units which are based at Massey University House at 90 Symonds St house a team of twenty to thirty social science researchers who use car share to move about. We think this university shows that they really are at the leading edge of learning and new ways of doing things!
Wilson Parking have provided our Garret St car park and soon this will be another Wellington location nearby. This is an important park for Cityhop because this and the previous Customs Street car park are open air and very visible. One of the challenges for carshare in New Zealand is that we are usually in car parks. People who use buses trains or walk don’t see us and don’t know there is an alternative to car ownership. So being on-street or in an open air car park and sitting practically on the pavement is important visibility for us. Thank you Wilson Parking.
Last month, Cooper & Co who are responsible for the new attractive developments at Britomart and the rejuvenation of the Britomart area have got behind car share with a car park in their new car park.
And of course, Auckland Transport has recently given cityhop 10 onstreet car park spaces.
Thank you supporters.
Tags: Auckland Transport, Britomart, car share, car share Auckland, cars by the hour., carshare, Cityhop, Cooper & Co;, Isthmus, Massey University, Shore & Whariki, Victoria Carter
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Thanks to Auckland Council and Auckland Transport, Cityhop today unveiled three onstreet car park spaces so Auckland City residents can now see how easy it is to live without a car. If you live near Hobson St, College Hill or Williamson Ave in Ponsonby, living without a car just got a whole lot easier. Says Victoria Carter, Co-founder, “we are thrilled to have a partnership with Auckland Transport, we have always believed we are part of a successful public transport mix with trains, buses, ferries, walking and biking. The reality is sometimes you need a car!”
Yes, for just $15 an hour including the FUEL, you can have access to smart eco-friendly wheels. See one of these links below and find out more about why, how and what is car share!
There has been quite a bit of press as a result!
NZ Herald thanks to Mathew Dearnaley
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10771168
Kiwi FM with Glenn Williams, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9GYKeOMjMM&list=UUgbm5in2RkVoXR4GsMSZ81A&feature=plcp&context=C242c2FDOEgsToPDskJk-fepgRc37z4zIkoXujc9
TV 3 http://www.3news.co.nz/New-car-sharing-scheme-hits-the-streets/tabid/423/articleID/235653/Default.aspx#top
Morning Report interviewed Sharon Hunter from Auckland Transport.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2504261/auckland-transport-launches-trial-to-encourage-car-sharing.asx
More to come!
Tags: Auckland car share, car share, cars by the hour., Cityhop, how to live without a car. cityhop, Victoria Carter
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Collaborative consumption have produced a cool carsharing website. Yep, we might be right at the end of the world carshare map, but Cityhop is there! Right next door to the picture of one kangaroo are half a dozen sheep. Not sure we get the significance of the UFO beaming up the sheep though!
Check it out, all the interesting statistics and important numbers on carshare! http://futureofcarsharing.com/
Tags: car share, car share Auckland, cars by the hour., carshare, City hop, Cityhop, collaborative consumption
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Bruce Jeffrey Co Founder Go Get with cityhop
Our mates at Go Get are growing fast. Admitedly they are big older than us! Nearly five years older. It helps that Sydney and Melbourne Councils are all getting the ‘carshare’ thing and putting parks on street too. This has really helped all the car share operators draw attention to how easy it is to live without your own car.
If you drive less than 10,000 kms a year car share will save you money. Find out more about how Aussies are saving money and still getting around!
With carsharing the petrol is included in the hourly rate of getting about. “Most members of carshare programmes, adds Victoria Carter, co-founder of Cityhop,”have no idea what it costs to fill a tank. They aren’t paying!.”
Carsharing not only works for residents but businesses can also save thousands of dollars in transport costs by cutting their taxi bills and car lease costs.
Not only is it cost effective but carsharing is a greener transport alternative to owning a car and then adding to traffic congestion and the subsequent impact on the environment and green spaces.
Read more at
http://blacktown-advocate.whereilive.com.au/lifestyle/story/car-sharing-catching-on/
Tags: cars by the hour., carshare, carsharing, Cityhop, Go Get, sharing a car, Victoria Carter
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
New York Times has an interesting article on how urban policy in some European cities is to irk drivers!
European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The methods vary, but the mission is clear — to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.
One strategy is intentionally making it harder and more costly to park.
It’s been calculated that a person using a car takes up 115 cubic meters (roughly 4,000 cubic feet) of urban space in Zurich while a pedestrian took three. So on the basis that it’s not really fair to everyone else if you take the car it is getting harder and harder to park.
In Copenhagen, at the European Environment Agency, the office building ha more than 150 spaces for bicycles and only one for a car, to accommodate a disabled person.
Carless households have increased from 40 to 45 percent in the last decade, and car owners use their vehicles less.
It does help to have very good public transportation!
Tags: car sharing, cars by the hour., Cityhop, drive less, eco-friendly, environmentally friendly, sustainable practices
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Friday, June 17th, 2011
The Guardian had an article by John Elkington about how times may be a-changing and that whereas once people aspired to get a company car or save up for a flasher car these days they are more interested in not owning. ( well in the US, UK and Europe) NZ may have a little way to go.
Elkington noted how we spoke at a conference in Madrid and that “someone from the auto industry noted to a small group of us that what is really spooking them is the fact that young people are beginning to think differently about car ownership.
“Unlike earlier generations, for whom owning a car was a signal of independence, of having arrived, young people these days are showing much less inclination to possess their own car – and, empowered by mobile phones, apps, social networks and start-ups like Go Get, Streetcar, Zipcar, WhipCar and City Car Club, they are increasingly opting for car sharing.
Now there’s a thought!
Tags: car share, cars by the hour., carshare, carsharing, Cityhop, Go Get, how to live without a car. cityhop, Victoria Carter, Zipcar
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Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
Cityhop was chuffed to read that cityhop members Mitchell & Stout Architects were winners with a Waiheke Island house in the Residential Architecture – House category in the 2011 NZ Architecture Awards.
“With its poetically generated arrangement of volumes and room, this house, designed as retreat from work, offers a range of inventive and enjoyable spatial experiences. It offers a few extraordinary moments: the ‘thinking room’, a double height space for music and contemplation; guest sleeping areas that are reminiscent of Ryokan atchitecture and suggestive of treehuts and a brightly painted yellow main bedroom.”
We love seeing our members do well. David Mitchell and Julie Stout are not only imaginative in the way they create houses for clients but also in the way they move about the city. They recognise that individual car ownership isn’t always necessary and when they and their team need to drive somewhere they carshare with Cityhop.
Tags: car share, cars by the hour., carshare, Cityhop, David Mitchell, how to live without a car. cityhop, Julie Stout, Mitchell & Stout
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
“Use me when you need me” is written on the cityhop car. And yes, some of us have had the odd look.
Do I prefer this car or the one that says “I’m yours for $15 an hour!”
One of our wags wanted a well known politician to stand beside any one of these doors – we figured it might become one of the photos that was good for us but bad for a long standing political relationship so we didn’t go with it!
Enough about us, be moved by the one minute u tube clip about the power of words.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU
Tags: advertising, car share, cars by the hour., City hop, Cityhop, words
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
At what price will we think we can still afford to be a two or three car family?
One theory is that despite petrol edging up over $2.21 a litre car travel is still relatively under-priced and over-consumed in relation to the damage we are doing to the environment.
It might surprise readers to know most of us have tripled the kilometres we drive in the past 20 years. Maybe only the right kind of pricing can undo the obsession many of us have to drive everywhere?
That’s why car share clubs are taking off around the world. People who only use a car a few times a week yet pay for a smart piece of metal to sit in an expensive garage realise that it makes no sense. They sell their car and use cityhops ecofriendly cars instead!
It’s cheap -only $15 an hour, or $75 for 24 hours.
Says Victoria Carter Cityhop co-founder,”Car share means all the nice things about having a car but none of the bad – like someone else worrying about the maintenance, remembering the Warrant of Fitness, registration, checking the tyres and so on.
Car share is growing in popularity. In the US, it’s cool to be a Zipster and Zipcar , which recently floated very successfully, has over half a million members sharing cars.
Our friends at Go Get have doubled in size to 10,000 members in the past 12 months. Sydney and Mebourne residents get that it makes sense to just use car share occasionally rather than pay the costs of having a car in your driveway!
Maybe it’s time to think about what your really car costs?
Tags: car share, cars by the hour., carshare, carsharing, Go Get, how to live without a car. cityhop, Victoria Carter, Zipcar
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