TMACOG's Share A Ride now online - find carpool partners
NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release October 3, 2008
Contact: Mary Pat McCarthy: [email protected]
419.241.9155 ext 106
Share A Ride and Save for the Weekend
Find Carpool Partners At Sharearide.org
If you have thought about carpooling to save on gas money, there is now a fast and easy way to find carpool partners in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Share a Ride is the commuter matching service of the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG) and the service is now online.
To find carpool partners, start at www.sharearide.org. Click on “Register.” You will be taken to RideShare Ohio. Click on “Register” in the blue box to get started. Once you have entered some information about where you work and what your commute hours are, you can print out your carpool matches. Simply call the people on your report to start carpooling. People who find carpool partners through Share A Ride are also eligible for the Guaranteed Ride Home. If for any reason you are stranded at work – if your driver has to leave work early, or you need to work overtime – you can take a cab home and get reimbursed.
There is no cost to register for Share A Ride and no charge to participate. People who live and work near each other make their own arrangements for carpooling. Even carpooling a few days a week will save money.
You don’t need to drive to register with Share A Ride; you might be able to find a partner who is willing to do all the driving but wants to split the cost of gas and parking. Share A Ride is not an “on demand” program that will help people get rides to a doctor’s office or shopping. It is a program to reduce the number of single occupant commuters driving to and from work or school.
For more information, go to www.sharearide.org, or call TMACOG at 419.241.1919 ext 132. Outside of the Toledo area, call 800.241.1919.
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Press Release Contact Name: Mary Pat McCarthy
Press Release Contact Email: [email protected]
Press Release Contact Phone: 419.241.9155
Organization Name: TMACOG
Website or Link: tmacog.org
Organization Address: 300 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Toledo, OH