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Syracuse, NY, Implements Community-Based Car-Sharing
CuseCar's Chris Beck and Steering Committee member Barry Carr.
CuseCar, a new vehicle-sharing business, is taking its first step toward launching a citywide business. CuseCar is locating its first Toyota Prius on the campus of SUNY ESF. Students and faculty members who buy memberships will be able to rent the car by the hour.
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What is a student to do? With the rising cost of tuition, books, room and board, is there enough in your budget for wheels? With a membership to CuseCar there is!
CuseCar is a community car sharing program aimed at reducing transportation and parking issues as well as promoting sustainable community living. “CuseCar reduces the dependence on the automobile, lowers the vehicle miles traveled and maximizes the economic, environmental and social benefits of automobile ownership, without the cost and consequences of individual ownership.” says Vita DeMarchi, Managing Partner of Synapse and a member of the Board of Trustee at SUNY ESF. The SUNY ESF Campus will soon be home to one of the first CuseCars and available to students, faculty and staff later this Fall.
Have some errands to run or just want to take a ride to one of the local parks? Become a CuseCar member and along with some friends, reserve your CuseCar by the hour, you are saving cash as well as the environment. CuseCar is a not-for-profit community based program that specializes in enhancing the transportation system by providing state-of-the-art vehicles, starting with a fleet of alternative fuel cars. ESF will be one of the first Origination Locations and Founding Sponsors for the CuseCar and will provide an alternative fueling station on campus. Stay-tuned, ESF will be the home of a bio-fuel or an electric plug-n-play CuseCar in the near future.
For more information, go to www.cusecar.com. Membership information for ESF students, faculty and staff will be unveiled soon.
VITA DeMARCHI (left) and Eckardt C. Beck, of Synapse Partners in Syracuse, have co-founded CuseCar, a business project they say will rent cars to people by the hour in Syracuse beginning later this year. They are shown in their office at 325 E. Water St.
Syracuse, NY — Two Syracuse business partners have launched a car-sharing organization with plans to put at least 10 cars on city streets by late fall for people to rent by the hour.
CuseCar, a nonprofit corporation, was formed to give people the convenience of using a vehicle occasionally without the cost of owning it, said founders Vita DeMarchi and Eckardt C. “Chris” Beck.
Similar car-sharing operations have popped up in at least 20 American cities, including Ithaca, fueled by environmental concerns and increasing worries about the cost of gas.
Ithaca’s experience has been encouraging. After starting up with 50 members just two months ago, the nonprofit Ithaca Carshare now has more than 200 members and is likely to add to its fleet of seven vehicles soon, said Jennifer Dotson, executive director.
“It’s been really quite successful,” Dotson said.
Car sharing is designed to complement public transportation and urban lifestyles by giving residents easy access to a vehicle when they need one. The overall effect is to reduce dependence on automobiles, thus lowering air emissions, fuel consumption, urban sprawl and wear and tear on roads, DeMarchi said.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A local car-sharing program is set to roll out in Syracuse. CuseCar is a member-based car sharing program.
Cars will be parked in various locations downtown and close to Syracuse University and Upstate Medical Center.
Members will sign up to use a car online, pick it up, and return it when they are through, without having the fill the tank!
The cars will mostly be hybrids or high gas-mileage vehicles. The founder says CuseCar will will reduce traffic congestion and improve the environment.
“The CuseCar will reduce the number of vehicle-miles-traveled on the road thus reducing air pollution emissions and our carbon footprint,” said Vita DeMarchi, CuseCar founder.
For more information on how to become a member, call (315) 475-3700, ext. 34.
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