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Congested and Polluted, Mexico City Embraces Carpooling
2013-02-08 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In a megacity like the Mexican capital, plagued by air pollution and traffic jams, carsharing and carpooling initiatives offer obvious advantages in addition to the economic benefits enjoyed by users. Two of the most popular new initiatives of this kind are Aventones and Carrot, small companies founded by young recent university graduates. Aventones takes its name from "aventn", the Spanish word for hitching a lift. The company's creation was spurred by "the excess of traffic and the inefficient...
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Life in the fast lane: In the D.C. area, carpooling slugs ride fast and free
2013-01-30 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its a Wednesday morning like any other, and Vicky Manalansan is speeding down the freeway toward Washington, D.C., in her silver minivan. Riding in her backseat are two complete strangers she picked up at a suburban commuter lot. Smartphone-wielding techsters in San Francisco might call this ridesharing, but in the D.C. area, where carpooling has been an accepted way of life for decades, they call it slugging. Each day, an estimated 10,000 commuters in northern Virginia hitch rides this way....
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