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511 Rideshare helps you carpool in the Bay Area

If you live in the Bay Area and like to conserve resources (like, say, money and oil), perhaps ride sharing should be added to your list of transportation options. A free service called 511 Rideshare can help passengers and drivers find each other for daily commutes. The website can also help you find vanpool information, which is like carpooling on on steroids. Actually, considering the negative association steroids have these days, I'll say it's more like carpooling on a healthy vegan diet: strong and good for the earth. If you use 511 ... Read more →

Bay area officials considering a regional gas tax increase Sam Abuelsamid

511 Rideshare helps you carpool in the Bay Area 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Bay area officials considering a regional gas tax increase 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay area is proposing a 10-cent-a-gallon regional gas tax. The tax would be applied in addition to existing state and federal gas taxes and state sales tax. The reason given for adding the tax would be to encourage drivers to go to ...

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