Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Sharing car ownership, organized ride systems

[Carol Robinson (carolrslv]

Rob,
  In our community, we have a "shared" pick-up truck. This 
  is very informal and someone put out on our listserve asking
  for potential "sharers" and got 10-12. Our first "beater truck"
  had about 12 "sharers". Everyone put in about $120 each and
  then the maintenance costs were shared over the year. After
  a year, the truck was not functional any more. So, another
  member of our community had a truck he was selling, this one
  in much better shape. He put a buying price on the truck and
  a "group" of 8 folks chipped in to buy that. I think the way it
  works is if you own a "share" you have access to the keys. If
  you don't "own a share" you can ask to borrow the truck if 
  someone else isn't using it and pay a fee of $5. Each person
  who drives it is responsible for filling it back up. I think the idea
  behind it was to have some vehicle for hauling that many folks in
  the community have access to so not everyone has to own a truck.
  As a former truck owner, who now owns a Prius, I am appreciative
  of the opportunity to have a vehicle for hauling when I need it!!
   
  We haven't worked out the "shared" vehicle for folks to go to work in.
  One of the main reasons we purchased our property where we did was
  so that we were in the town limits and so many of us now drive less than
  5 miles to work. So, many of us are on varied schedules and we have less
  distance to drive than before we moved in.
   
  Thanks for asking!!
  Carol Robinson
  Shadowlake VIllage, Blacksburg, VA "where today I am waiting for my friends
  from Blueberry Hill Cohousing to bring their daugther to college and stay 
overnight
  in my newly finished office with a daybed!!"

Rob Sandelin <floriferous [at] msn.com> wrote:
  I would be interested to hear about cohousing groups which have people that
share ownership of cars and/or systems that groups have developed to share
rides. 


Rob Sandelin
Sharingwood Community, Snohomish County, WA
Naturalist, Writer
The Environmental Science School
http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm
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