City Carshare Puns

The long and the short of it all, I have a motorcycle and car. Looking to sell the car and using either City Carshare or Zipcar for my auto needs like grocery shopping or day trips.

Does anyone have any experience with one or the other (or both)? If so, what's your opinion and/or recommendation for someone who lives in the Inner Sunset area of San Francisco?

In Moscow, it's becoming more and more popular to use carsharing, especially among younger people. It's cheaper than taxi (usually less than 14 euro cents per minute), you don't need to care about a car besides refueling, and you can park it on paid city parking for free.

There're more than 20 th cars now, but the fleet is growing with expected 25 th cars by the end of the year. There're estimates that one carsharing car replaces 25 personal cars, so obviously it's good for ecology.

I've started to use it just a month ago, and it's so convenient to use it to drive between places with poor public transport connectivity. It really saves time for me.

Hey all, recently moved to the San Francisco from a car-dependent suburb and am paying a hot $300/month for parking in my apartment complex. That combined with the monthly financed car cost + EV charging + insurance + maintenance is swelling it up to well over $1000/month for the total cost of ownership, which is making me seriously want to get rid of it.

After having lived here in SF for about a month, I'm realizing that I could just sell the car since most of my errands around the city seem doable by some combination of walking/MUNI/BayWheels (and for those that aren't, Lyft/Uber are always an option).

The only complication is that I have a dog who I may need to occasionally transport to the vet for regular check-ups or emergency visits (for which he may not be in walking condition at times). As far as I'm aware, Lyft doesn't allow pets in the cars. I've tried Uber Pet a couple of times in the past but was turned away by the driver saying that they wouldn't take pets, so I'm not entirely sure how reliable this is.

I'm also curious about how reliable carshare services in SF are. I'm hearing decent things about GIG, Turo, and Zipcar, but how reliable are they? If I spontaneously need a car suddenly because I need to take the dog to the vet, will I be able to find one close to me? There is a Zipcar lot right by where I live, but those cars seem to always be booked.

I would also like the flexibility of going outside SF for day trips to the coast and nearby national/state parks in NorCal, which is totally doable right now because I own a car. But if I get rid of it, I'm curious as to how much planning/scheduling it would require with carshare services or rental car companies. Obviously I can't be as spontaneous and need to plan ahead a bit, but what is the availability and condition of the vehicles like? Haven't rented a car since almost a decade ago at this point, so unsure about what it's been like during the pandemic.

If anyone has made the transition to go car-free in SF recently, would appreciate some advice (especially if you have pets and need to transport them). Thanks in advance!

Carsharing solves the "but what if I need to transport 6 months worth of groceries" problem.

From my experience the benefits are:

• It saves a lot of money. - I'd guess, that my wife and I spend on average 30 to 50 € per month for carsharing. We do 90+ % of our trips by bike and walking. Owning a car would cost us probably 200+ € per month and wouldn't make sense for using it 0 to 3 times a month.
• You can get the right car for the job. - The car sharing company were signed up with has a lot of different cars. Smallest cars, small cars, station wagons, vans, minibusses, and transporters? I want to pick up a couple of things from Ikea, that I can't transport with my bike? A small car can do that. I want to pick up some materials from the hardware store? I can get a van. I want to go on a trip to the countryside with a group of people? The minibus will do the job. We're moving to a new place? A transporter will do.
• You don't have to worry about your car. - Since you don't own the car, you also don't have to deal with maintenance, checkups, etc. And you also don't have to worry about someone damaging your car.
• You don't have to worry about parking. - At least with our system. The cars have reserved public parking spots. So when you return the car, you don't have to find a parking spot. You still need to find parking at your destination though.
• You are more anonymous. - A carsharing car is not yours, so you can't be identified or recognized as easily as with an owned car.
• They reduce traffic. - People can use other types of transportation for their main trips and reduce the amount of parked and driven cars. One shared car can replace up to 12 private cars.

There are some downsides too. Manly, that you have to watch the time if someone booked the car right after you. And if you need a car very often, it's more expensive than owning a car.

I still think that walking, biking, public transit and carsharing would be a good combo for most people who live in cities.

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Hi! My wife and I are soon moving to Canada, and we were wondering if anyone has experience with, or can recommend international movers from US to Canada. Any gotchas or tips we should be aware of?

Some things we found out so far that may help others:

• Typically mattresses require fumigation when transporting to Canada, but it turns out if you are a settler, you are exempt from that requirement.
• Timing the movers and when you cross the border should not be an issue. We were concerned that we need to cross the border first before the movers so we can declare "goods to follow". The way it works with international moves, is that the goods cross the border and stay in customs in a bonded warehouse until "goods to follow" are declared. So you and your shipped goods can cross the border in any order.

Thank you for any suggestions!

Peer-to-per carsharing is awesome and I can't wait for it to come to Austin, but the city council has already declared war on it. They passed an ordinance yesterday giving cops the right to impound vehicles of anyone who offers anyone a ride with peer-to-per carsharing.

So what is it... I've used Lyft when I was visiting a friend in San Francisco and it's amazing! (Sidecar is the one that's trying to start in Austin, but they're all pretty much the same thing.) You have a phone app and with a couple clicks you request a car. People who have signed up to be drivers get a notice on their phone, and if they're nearby they come by and pick you up and give you a ride. Then when the ride is over you get out of the car, and you pay for the ride through the phone app with a couple more clicks. The carshare company does background checks on drivers and provides extra liability insurance to protect everyone involved.

It's easy than hailing a cab, but it's also better for drivers because unlike cabs, they aren't spending most of their time trolling around the city looking for passengers... creating more traffic congestion and a ton of pollution! And with carsharing apps it's cheaper for everyone because they aren't wasting their time and gas and they don't need the bureaucracy and overhead that cab companies have.

Who knows what city council's problem is, but please tell them to support peer-to-peer ridesharing...

http://austintexas.gov/department/austin-city-council-members

http://austintexas.gov/email/transportation

And please also sign this position...

http://www.change.org/petitions/philadelphia-parking-authority-austin-transportation-dept-and-city-council-support-sharing-in-philadelphia-and-austin

Sidecar is the company that started the petition. I haven't used them personally, but I have used their competitor "Lyft", and they all work the same way, and any peer-to-peer carsharing in Austin would be amazingly great to have here.

I grew up near downtown Kitchener. I started using public transit for anything I needed to get to, but a couple of summers ago I bought myself a bike. At first I said owning a bike was my alternative to owning a car, but there have been a few things in other cities that I've had to borrow my parents' car for and a few more things that if I had my own car I might have gone to. But now I've joined a local car share, Communauto and I think I've got everything covered at this point. I live and shop downtown in Kitchener and I work in uptown Waterloo. My coworkers either bike or take transit to work for the most part. Many of them also live downtown/uptown.

Car Sharing

Car sharing is cheap and easy for people who only need a car a few times per month. I use Communauto, which is free to join and costs around $9/hour. With a $500 initial investment, rates go down to $3.85 or even $2.95 per hour along with a $5 or $30 monthly fee respectively. That also covers the cost of gas and insurance. The Region also recommends Enterprise Car Share, which as far as I understand is similar in terms of rates and what they cover.

Communauto has cars parked all around downtown/uptown, and they can be reserved ahead of time or booked immediately when you need them as long as they're available. I'm paying less for Communauto than I would for insurance, and it's saving me having to buy a car or pay for repairs and maintenance.

If you need to drive to work out of town, it's likely going to be best for you to own a car, but if your daily commute can be done by bike or transit (or on foot), the car share will likely be a cheaper, more convenient option for you.

Edit: The map for Communauto cars is here, under "Find vehicles in Southwestern Ontario." By my count, there are 27 spots, some of which have more than one vehicle. Enterprise Car Share has four locations in KW, but seems to be spread out more evenly around Ontario.

Year-Round Cycling

Winter cycling is pretty much the same as summer cycling. I would recommend investing in waterproof pants (and coat/jacket), which will obviously also be good for biking in the rain. Bike lights will also be necessary any time the sun isn't up (i.e. 5 pm in late December). The region has gotten good at clearing bicycle infrastructure

Hi everyone,

So after > 10 years of saving and doing pretty much everything I wanted to with my life here in Scotland, I'm biting the bullet to move to Winnipeg to learn to fly at Harv's Air.

I'm in the process of finishing my PhD in Glasgow and aim to move across around July-Sep 2022 and I thought I'd ask on here for some advice which I imagine could be pretty invaluable about living in what appears to be a beautiful part of the world.

Some context, as I said I'll be hopefully learning to fly at Harv's Air. There's a lot of specifics/detail up in the air (pardon the pun) at the moment but I'm likely to do a course that requires me to be learning 5 days a week, commuting to the appropriately named, St Andrews Airport, in the North East of the city.

Part-time work

Even with all of my savings, there's an extremely high chance I'm going to have to find part-time work to support myself while living here, a couple hours a week for example on weekends, in order to not run out of money. My understanding is, as a student at Harv's (a registered DLI), I should be able to work up to 20 hours a week, so some weekend work would appear to be within the rules. I'm not above working any job, though it would be nice if I could utilise my PhD/3 years experience in industry/over a decade of science communication for some more, perhaps niche, part time work at slightly higher hourly rates. So my first question is, does anyone have any tips/suggestions for places to look? I appreciate most jobs at this level are formalised/contract work that don't accommodate for the kind of hours I'd need to cover, so I understand bar work/service jobs are probably my best bet.

Accommodation and driving

I think, it's most likely I want to live on the edge of the city, close the airport but with the ability to use public transport/a bike (when weather/seasons would allow). Harv's Air offers accommodation on site but I note the rules that part-time working is not allowed. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation and from what I can tell, I think I'm going to have to own a car regardless of what I do. I'm reluctant to own a car, as a keen cyclist, plus the additional costs involved but I'm not naïve to the fact Canadian winter's and the much larger distances of North America probably makes public transport/cycling an impossibility all year round. I'll be 30 by the time I come across, having held a full clean UK driving license for 13 years by that point. Car rental schemes see

UPDATE: SECOND UPDATE COMING UP!!! https://www.reddit.com/r/dating/comments/raw3t4/2nd_update_had_my_first_kiss_this_sunday_23m/

Last Sunday I went on the first date with this girl (22F) I met on Tinder and it ended the best way I could think of.

First things first, I went on 4 dates through my entire life (23M), and 2 of those were in the last month. Those dates were actually really good, but ended up actually into them ghosting me or just them wanting to be just friends and nothing else. Obviously, that crushed my confidence and self-esteem down to the rock bottom (which they were actually down because of my looks and stuff) and after those dates I tended to feel really sad. Also this made me have a big fear of rejection.

What happened now? I’ve met this girl through OLD a month ago, and we started to chat, and last week we decided to meet on Sunday. I tried to convince myself to meet with no expectations, even though I was nervous as sh*t hours before.

On Sunday, we met each other, we went to a café near the place we’ve met at, we spoke about a lot of things, our lives, etc… After that, we decided to get ourselves a carsharing vehicle, because she wanted to try it for the first time (she lives a bit far from the city I live in). During the whole driving stuff (which lasted 1 hour), we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun. After that, we went to another bar and we continued to speak about our hobbies and all that stuff.

It was time for her to leave because she needed to pick a bus and it was getting late (12:30 AM). We hopped into the subway in order to go to the bus stop. When we arrived, she hugged me and then, I didn’t know what made me do it, but I asked her:

“May I kiss you?”

She answered “Yeah, of course!”

And then we went for it. Couldn’t believe what was happening in that moment. We started making out even though I didn’t know how to, but she guided me through the process. We made out for a considerable period of time and she smiled when we ended. She hugged me then and I whispered in her ear to please let me know when she arrives to her place. After that I stole from her another kiss before she finally went into the bus lmaooo.

When I was returning home, I had this smile in my face that wouldn’t disappear at all. All I could think of is “MY FIRST KISS EVER!!!!”. I finally did it, even though I convinced myself before that I was going to die a kissless virgin. So this is for you guys, don’t ever let yourselves down if things don’t go as y

Hi all, I wanted to ask your advice on whether an EV is a reasonable choice for me - especially as you all are people who are generally pro-EV.

Here is my situation: I need to buy a car for the first time in decades. I have moved to a rural location, where a car is necessary to get anywhere outside the town I live and work in. (I was fortunate enough to not need a car for the past 20 years or so, as I lived in walkable cities, places with great public transportation, or had easy access to carsharing if I ever needed one).

EVs really appeal to me, and I am intrigued by a couple of cars and have looked into those in quite some detail. I primarily love the idea of less environmental impact, not having to pay for gas, not having to deal with repairs/ oil changes and whatever else. And it appeals to me to invest in an EV instead of in a hopefully-soon-to-be-obsolete technology...

Yet: I am wondering if in my specific use case, an ICE (or PHEV?) would actually still be the more reasonable (and convenient) option? My use case is pretty much an outlier compared to most drivers. Here it goes:

- I live in a rural area. But my place of work is within walking distance. I will walk there even once I own a car.

- I live in a rental apartment, without access to a garage. And it's not clear that I can install a level 2-charger - or even use a wall plug here on a daily basis.

- (there are public chargers available in my town within walking distance, though)

- I live in a geographic area, where it gets pretty cold in the winter. It is around 15F (-10C) today, even colder at night.

- There are times during the year, where I will be away for weeks at a time - with the car just sitting here in the driveway.

-- Long story short, my car use will probably look something like this:

--- No daily driving.

--- 1-2 short (< 5miles) grocery shopping trips per week.

--- on average, 1 longer trip each weekend (50-100 miles each maybe)

--- maybe a long-weekend roadtrip every other month.

--- 1-2 very long roadtrips (up to a couple thousand miles) per year.

--- Car parked outside, even in freezing temperatures, for days at a time without driving, and likely without being able to just leave it plugged in.

Is this a use case where I should just stop considering an EV (even though my preference would actually be to go for one)?

Especially the combination of pretty irregular driving + being parked outside (in winter) + not being able to plug in at home l

I'm returning to the US (Seattle, WA) after a long, joyful, car-less stint in Europe and I'm gonna try my best to stay without a car, only renting one when I occasionally need it.

The problem is that I don't know how to do this in a cost-efficient manner. Renting from a traditional car agency seems like a real rip-off given that I basically have to buy their exorbitantly-priced per-day insurance because I don't have my own policy for my own car.

What is the best way to rent cars every once in a while, but not go broke doing it? Any good credit card strategies (for the insurance they provide) or alternate rental schemes (e.g. Turo)?

City: Puget Sound Area (mostly Redmond and Seattle)

I'm moving from Kitchener to Toronto in January. Currently I use Communauto in Kitchener and am quite happy with them, though they are the only carshare option there. What are peoples' experiences with the carshare options available in Toronto? Should I stick with Communauto or would it be worth considered an alternative? For reference, I'll be living near Queen W and Spadina and mostly use the car for small trips around town plus the occasional roadtrip outside the city.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Hey, hopefully this is allowed here. If not let me know and I'll remove it.

I am looking to rent or share a ride with someone to commute from Johnson City, TN to Boone, NC each weekend, leaving JC after 5PM on Fri and returning to JC before 11PM on Sunday. This will be a recurring weekly trip until appx mid May, with potential for re-up in the Fall.

I'd be willing to "rent" your car for appx $35/weekend, so if you have an extra car that's just sitting on the weekends, maybe we can help each other out.

If you already make this trip and are willing to rideshare, I would be willing to split gas costs, plus a little extra for your efforts.

Likewise, if you're a student in Boone, NC and you only need your car on Sat/Sun, perhaps we could do the reverse.

Do your worst!

There have been questions on the sub regarding Golden Spin this year, so here's everything that's been published so far.

Tickets

• Tickets can be bought at the entrance of Ledena dvorana Sisak (Sisak Ice Rink) and Gradski bazen (City Pool)
• Daily tickets 20 HRK (2,70€), children 13-15 10 HRK (1,35€), children up to 12 years free
• Family daily tickets (two adults and two children up to 15 years old) 40 HRK (5,40€)
• Same prices for the gala

Reservations

• All tickets must be reserved in advance
• Reservations phone numbers: +385 99 497 05 03 and +385 98 981 2890
• Reservation form: https://src-sisak.hr/zlatna-pirueta/ (in Croatian only)
• You can reserve just one event or the whole day (prices stay the same)
• You must indicate when and where you plan on collecting your tickets
• Tickets will be reserved up to 45 min before the start of the event
• In case of full capacity, reservations and sales will be stopped

Transportation

• Considering the event is taking place in a different city than previous years, HŽ (Croatian Railways) is offering a 40% discount on all return tickets to Sisak where the distance is more than 25 km
• Discount applies to all travelers from Slovenia as well
• When buying the ticket, you must announce the purpose to get the discount
• You can also try finding carsharing options on BlaBlaCar

Current Covid Countermeasures in Croatia

• You must have a Covid passport (proof of vaccination) or recent PCR test results (not home tests) to enter public institutions
• Entry into Croatia rules here

Official event flyer (in Croatian) here.

E: typo.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

The long and the short of it all, I have a motorcycle and car. Looking to sell the car and using either City Carshare or Zipcar for my auto needs like grocery shopping or day trips.

Does anyone have any experience with one or the other (or both)? If so, what's your opinion and/or recommendation for someone who lives in the Inner Sunset area of San Francisco?

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.