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Holiday Discounts for AllHappy holidays! It's that time of year again, when we all share much more than CCS cars. As members of our community-based organization, you've shown dedication in using other forms of alternative transit, reducing automobile use in the Bay Area. As a City CarShare member, you're also supporting the 'green' movement, by sharing the greenest fleet available and helping to save 55 million pounds of CO2 locally - this year alone. Through CCS programs and educational efforts, you're also supporting local businesses, organizations and groups (see below), helping to make the Bay Area a better place to live.
Without your respect for the concept of sharing, our service wouldn't work. Keeping cars clean, returning
them on time and giving that little smile to other CCS members proves that sharing responsibly is a great
community builder. And since you are saving about $450 dollars each month over car ownership*, we're
guessing you have a little more cash to share with family and friends this holiday season.
To show our gratitude and celebrate the power of a community sharing, we are saying thanks for sharing this year by extending special holiday discounts to all members. Whether you need a car for overnight visits with family who live farther away, or for busy holiday shopping excursions and errands, we are giving you a break in the form of two discounts. Extended Freedom Trips: $10 off for 10 days Do you need to get out of town for a day or more? Get $10 off any Extended Freedom Trip (EFT) from December 21 through December 31, 2009. When you make your reservation, use promo code Holiday2009 to get the discount. Only $4/hour during Weekdays at Select Locations (Pods) During weekdays from December 10 through December 31, 2009, the hourly rate is only $4 for cars from these select locations. When you make your reservation, use promo code Holiday2009 to get the discount. Alameda
Excelsior: Phelan & Ocean Ave.
Forest Hill: Portola & Woodside
Inner Sunset: 17th & Lincoln
Laurel Heights: Masonic & Geary
Marina: Magnolia & Buchannan
Mission: Cypress & 24th
Mission: Duboce & Mission
Noe Valley: 26th & Guerrero
North Beach: Columbus & Lombard
Potrero Hill: 16th & Potrero
Richmond: 9th & Geary
Richmond: Geary & 16th
SOMA: 3rd & Howard
SOMA: 3rd & Mission
SOMA: Gough & Market
Sunset: 19th & Irving
Tenderloin: Myrtle & Polk
Union Square: O'Farrell & Powell
Western Addition: Ellis & Fillmore (Fillmore Center)
West Portal: Claremont & Allston
(For premium and capacity vehicles, add $2/hour. The discounts will be applied from December 10 at 12:00 AM through December 31 at 11:45 PM to all trips as defined above to those members who use the promo code on each applicable reservation. Mileage rates apply. Hourly trips that begin or end after the designated time will be charged the prevailing rate for out-of-promotion hours.)
* based on the AAA's car ownership cost analysis.
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A Year of Giving Back We love the Bay Area and consider ourselves lucky to partner with many remarkable local groups and initiatives. Here's a recap of our program work in 2009: CommunityShare plan: To boost accessibility of car sharing, City CarShare subsidizes membership and driving costs for those who qualify as low-income members and are referred by one of our partner organizations. This year, we've established partnerships with the Glide Economic Development Corporation in  SF and Resources for Community Development/Oxford Plaza in Berkeley to offer CommunityShare plan
discounts to residents of their buildings. We continue to provide services to CalWorks and various
affordable housing locations. Stay tuned for more as we will soon be working with Working Families
Credit Program and other organizations to grow the CommunityShare program even more in 2010.
Access Program: Another way we extend car sharing is through our AccessMobile. Launched in 2008, the
AccessMobile is still the nation's only wheelchair accessible car share vehicle. We are pleased to
report that it is growing in popularity and usage. This fall, we were awarded a Coro Fellow to review
usage and collect user experiences from Access members. Our Fellow, Susan Lieu, uncovered some great
feedback. Below are a few quotes from people who participate in this program, which is made possible
in-part by a grant from the National Organizations on Disabilities and is co-sponsored by the City of
Berkeley:
Bay Area Wilderness Training car share partnership for youth educators: To remove transportation
barriers that youth educators face, we partnered in 2008 with Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) to
place their two vans into our fleet. All members can use these vans, as well as youth educators, who use
them to take at-risk youth on wilderness-bound educational and inspirational adventures. Now with 74
drivers signed up, this program is poised for continued growth with the recent addition of the Presidio's
Chrissy Field Center (CFC) as a new BAWT program affiliate. CCS will support CFC's transportation
funding to youth groups for kids' camping field trips in 2010.
Advocating for sustainable mobility: This year we released a best practices guide for developers to manage parking spaces in a manner that saves them money while supporting alternative transit options. City CarShare and Nelson Nygaard co-presented the findings at TransForm's annual summit and we are using the report to encourage developers to decrease parking spaces to achieve sustainability goals and cut costs. The report is available for free and downloadable here. A list of many of the organizations we've worked with this year can be found at the end of this newsletter, click here. |
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City CarShare is giving a Shout Out to the SF Silent Film Festival
Step into the past and be entertained "old-school style" at the
San Francisco Silent Film Festival. This year is
the festival's 5th Annual Winter Event at the Castro Theatre, on Saturday, December 12. As the Festival
celebrates the past and its relevance to our time, City CarShare looks forward to a sustainable future
where the past can be appreciated and preserved. Recognizing the cultural value of 'vintage' film and the
one-of-a-kind Castro Theatre, City CarShare is proud to support the festival this year.
As the official Ride of the Festival, City CarShare will supply the greenest wheels for the festival's special guests--including Buster Keaton's granddaughter Melissa Cox, and world-renowned musical accompanists Dennis James, Donald Sosin, and Robert Israel, as well as making it possible to transport heavy film cans to and from the theater. As a City CarShare member, you get a discount on tickets! Get $2 off each ticket or $7 off the Festival Pass when you show your fob at the Castro Theatre box office on the day of the show. We will also be giving away some free tickets to our Facebook fans, so become a fan if you aren't one already. The Winter Event lineup includes five crowd-thrilling entertainments. There is something for everyone with films ranging from Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness, directed by the team that created the original King Kong, to the North American premiere of Abel Gance's renowned anti-war epic J'accuse. Also among the lineup is Sherlock Jr. with some of the most astonishing effects ever put on film and West of Zanzibar, and the short film The Goat. Following J'accuse, there will be drinks, appetizers, fabulous company, and live music at the festival party in the Castro Theatre mezzanine! For more information on the films and to purchase tickets visit www.silentfilm.org. |
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Member Highlight & Creative Gift Ideas
Looking for eco-friendly Holiday gifts? Check out Non*Mart, a design studio
and shop that uses post-consumer waste and repurposed materials to create new goods and services. City
CarShare member Shasha Petrenko started Non*Mart with Kathryn Kenworth to explore alternatives to
consumerism and develop more relational, less commercial means of economic exchange. Non*Mart is open
until January 15th at the Y2Y Gallery (251 Balboa Street, SF) so swing by and barter your way into some
creative gifts to impress anyone on your list.
While communicating with Sasha about routine City CarShare business via e-mail, we also discovered Sasha's website featuring her Pocket-house. Complimenting Sasha on her work,  she let us know that City CarShare was one of the reasons she could
complete the project: "Thanks to City CarShare, I had access to vehicles for transporting materials.
Without City CarShare, I couldn't have created the Pocket-house." This piece, exhibited at many museums
and galleries, was created as a solution to Sasha's increasingly transient lifestyle as an attempt to
combine her art practice and her need for shelter. The Pocket-house is a one-person portable shelter pod
that can be easily moved and installed by an individual with a pick-up truck (another use for our Tayota
Tacomas!) and explores issues of land-use, community and space—all facets of our world that City CarShare
works everyday to support and improve. Thanks for sharing Sasha!
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Driving Tip: Return Them Like NewOne of the benefits of sharing our cars is that they feel like your own. We want you to feel at ease in our cars, but please remember that sharing means returning the car in the same condition it was in at the beginning of your trip. Getting into a car with stinky fast food wrappers, pet hair on the seat, or a gas tank on Empty is no fun for anyone. At the end of your trip, do a clean sweep of the car and remove all of your personal belongings, trash and, yes, even that empty coffee cup or water bottle. If you ever come across a car where the previous member has forgotten some of these sharing basics, be sure to let us know at 415-995-8588.Christmas Tree Hauling Tips Need to haul a Christmas tree this season? Reserve a truck and avoid most of the needle mess. If you are using a standard car, wrap the tree so you don't get sticky sap and pine needles all over the interior of the car. To carry the tree on top of the car, place a blanket on the roof and then fasten the tree on top of the blanket with ropes. | ||
A Year of Partnerships to Build a Healthier Bay AreaThroughout 2009 we've partnered with and supported many magnificent organizations. We've exchanged driving credits for co-promotional programs, supported silent auctions and raffles, provided awareness and educational programs, and sponsored events. Many of our partners and supported organizations are listed below—click on the links below to learn more.Transportation and Urban Advocacy groups
CommunityShare Low Income Partners
Green Car Sharing Developments
Other Programs and Organizations
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Hit the Slopes in the Subaru Outback!
With snow finally on the slopes we've added Ski/Snowboard racks to our Subaru Outbacks! Each rack holds up to 6 pairs of skis or 4 snowboards, and comes outfitted with a lock. Equipped with Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive, the Subaru is ready to handle any California-style road trip. |
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