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| 媒體報導Who’s pooling who? - Eastern Courier，澳洲 (2008年9月4日)CAR pooling a growing trend interstate to combat high fuel costs remains largely sight unseen among the eastern suburbs’ ‘I want to be alone’ motorists. Most cars on local roads during peak hours contain just the driver, from the observations of the Eastern Courier in recent weeks. To take one morning peak snapshot of 19 city-bound cars on Kensington Rd, Rose Park, only three contained one or more passengers. In the evening peak on the Norwood Parade, 5 of 12 cars were carrying passengers. And yet, everyone still complains about skyrocketing petrol prices, traffic congestion and slow travel times, not to mention the importance of reducing the State’s carbon footprint. There are at least 10 Australian car-share websites to connect potential travel partners using a postcode search. After registering on the site, the driver or passenger specifies a destination and travel times, with both parties then agreeing on petrol and parking fees. All the websites contacted by the Eastern Courier said the sharing and caring attitude was booming in other states. But not in Adelaide. At The Car Pool, more than 250 ride-sharers are listed nationwide but just five Adelaide drivers are seeking a passenger in such areas as Golden Grove, Hallett Cove and Eden Hills. Carpool King has 24 registered users in NSW (17) and Victoria (7), with a lone Adelaide offer travelling from Hope Valley to Mawson Lakes. Carpool Australia’s Brian Powell said his Queensland-based service had about 1000 registered car-sharers across the country but just one driver in Fulham Gardens seeking a city-bound passenger. “Your transport costs are not as expensive as the east coast we’ve got traffic jams and toll gates creeping in, and those things might not impact Adelaide so heavily,” he said. “But we just can’t continue to put more and more cars on the road and have one person driving around in them for most of their lives the world can’t afford that.” Adelaide design firm Woods Bagot launched SA’s first car pooling club with Adelaide City Council and GoGet CarShare last month. RAA traffic and safety manager Rita Excell said there should be more government incentives to encourage car pooling, such as priority lanes for “high occupancy vehicles”. “Congestion in Adelaide is below that of the eastern states but it’s continuing to increase here whereas other places are remaining static and we don’t want to see it getting any worse,” she said. Transport Department spokesman Ross Stargatt said the government’s TravelSmart program, introduced in 2006, worked with large companies to reduce car use, and car pooling was “one of several methods to achieve this”. |