In Flexcar Promotion, Two Dozen Portlanders Put Their Car Keys Away This Month
Sarah Gilbert, who like me blogs for AOL, and her husband Jonathan Hanson are two of more than two dozen Portlanders who have set their car keys aside for a month to get around by mass transit, bike and Flexcar.
They are doing this as part of the Flexcar Low-Car Diet Challenge, a program involving the hourly car rental service and partners Bike Gallery, TriMet, Amtrak, the city, Multnomah County and the state of Oregon.
Nick Budnick of the Portland Tribune (and formerly of Willy Week) notes today that for their participation, Sarah, Jonathan and the rest of the Low-Car Diet Challenge group Participants received 25 hours of free use of Flexcar, a $50 gift certificate from the Bike Gallery, a monthly pass from TriMet, and one roundtrip Amtrak ticket to either Eugene or Seattle.
Sarah and Jonathan say they are doing this in large part to set a good environmentally conscious example for their kids.
“I hate being dependent on a car,” Sarah tells Nick. “It’s a love-hate relationship.”
Good on ya, Sarah, Jonathan and the rest of you Low-Car folks as well.
Now if the city of Portland would only derail this idea of charging Flexcar to store their cars in metered lots near MAX train stations.
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It’s actually not so much about storing the cars in metered lots near Max stations as it is about providing on-street parking in places like downtown, the Pearl District, and NW, fyi.
Flexcar ought to pay for parking spaces like the rest of us.