At a downtown Los Angeles press event today, Zipcar representatives announced new car-share “flexibility” features. The new features, described below, are currently available uniquely in the Southern California market, and will be rolled out to other North American cities throughout 2016. In the past, Zipcar car-share required users to always return cars to the parking space where they […]
Last Friday, Metro and Zipcar announced a new partnership that places car-share vehicles at ten Metro station parking lots. The new program was announced via a press conference at the North Hollywood Red Line Station. Speakers included Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti, Metro Boardmember Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, Metro’s new CEO Phil Washington, and Zipcar […]
For as long as I’ve covered car-sharing in Los Angeles, it’s been something of a disaster. Our first story, published on Street Heat in 2007, was about how ZipCar’s buyout of Flex Car would lead to a dramatic reduction of car-share. Nearly six years later, Los Angeles, a city with over 4 million people, has […]