Island Car Share scheme
It is self-evident that we need one: congestion, parking problems, rush hour, etc.
We have had previous attempts - WightRide being the most recent. When I tried to find out how many Island people had used it, I could not get any info. Then it emerged that the Rural Community Council had been sponsoring it but had dropped it. The problem I see is that it is a national scheme badged for the Island - unconvincingly.
With an easy-to-use Island only scheme, it might take off much easier. I proposed a parallel of the Island’s Freecycle scheme - it’s success is inspirational. It would be free to everyone to use. It could accept sponsorship to help pay website costs, group moderators and mailshots to major employers on the Island (though we might be able to get the Chamber to help with that).
To start it off, I feel we need one major employer to tell its employees. … But imagine how well it would do with business managements around the Island encouraging employees.
A meeting to discuss this with Joe Duckworth, Chief Executive of the County Council, was very constructive. “There is no feasible engineering solution to the rush-hour problem in Newport” he said. “We would like to explore a CarShare scheme for the Island.”
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