Santa Monica to Mobility Companies: Don’t Innovate Here
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Santa Monica is uniquely suited to mobility innovation, but the city won't learn from new mobility launches
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about car share
LADOT And BlueLA Partner For Low-Income Electric Car Share
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Today the city of Los Angeles and BlueLA launched a new program to provide electric-powered car-sharing for low income communities.
Zipcar Introduces New Flexibility Features, Including One-Way Trips
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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 […]
Metro and Zipcar Place Car-Share Cars At Metro Parking Lots
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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 […]
LADOT Lays the Groundwork for Functional Car Share with Hertz. Goodbye ZipCar?
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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 […]