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Car Club offers members “pay as you go” driving. The car is booked either on-line or over the ‘phone, and is picked up and returned to the same on-street bay by the member. The car is booked for the period of time required by the member. Members can generally use vehicles for as little as 30 minutes to a week or more.
Each Car Club operator has different ways of charging for the service they provide but generally members will pay an hourly charge which includes all the costs of using the car such as fuel, insurance, depreciation and maintenance.
Therefore you will pay nothing for the car when you are not using it and for this reason car club membership is often cheaper than car ownership.
Some operators do charge a membership fee (generally with reduced usage charges). To compare the offer of each car club operator you may wish to visit the following websites:
The Council has increased the number of car club bays provided on-street from seven to 97.
The scheme is a multiple-operator scheme. This means that three operators, CityCarClub, StreetCar and ZipCar, are running a car club service on-street in competition with each other.
With 97 on-street car club bays, most residents will have at least one bay within the vicinity of their house for each operator.
This means that over 95 per cent of residents are within a five minute walk of at least one car club bay. In addition there are over 24 off-street car club bays around the borough.
No residents’ car parking bays were lost as a result of the expansion, instead pay and display bays and single yellow line were converted.
Car Club complements the Council’s policies to reduce traffic, improve air quality and reduce on-street parking demand. Research undertaken by the Department for Transport and car club user surveys undertaken by the operators, suggest that at least five cars are taken off the road for every one car club vehicle provided and that car use decreases whilst the use of alternative modes increases.
The shift from private vehicles to car club vehicles, which are generally more modern and fuel-efficient, also brings about benefits in terms of reduced air pollution and green house gas emissions.
Go to Department for Transport Car Clubs Research [PDF file] (File size 288Kb)
The reduction in vehicles on-street, and the fact that many members will not purchase a first or second car as a result of joining a car club scheme, means car clubs reduce on-street parking pressure.
Given the high levels of parking pressure across the borough, this is an important benefit of the proposed scheme.
The reduction in vehicles on-street, and the fact that many members will not purchase a first or second car as a result of joining a car club scheme, means car clubs reduce on-street parking pressure. Given the high levels of parking pressure across the borough, this is an important benefit of the proposed scheme.
For more information on the Car Club proposals please contact the Senior Transport Planner using the details below:
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