Rising Gas Costs, Sluggish Economy, and Greenhouse Gases Prompt Families to Utilize Carpooling Website

April 11, 2008

(Rocky Hill, C.T.) Earth Day 2008 is April 22. And now, with the ever rising cost of gasoline, a sluggish economy, and the dangerous greenhouse gases and pollutants that vehicles produce, the need to implement economic and eco-friendly alternatives like carpooling has become a vital necessity. A prime example of how carpooling and going green go hand and hand is Divide The Ride (www.dividetheride.com), a safe and secure carpooling website designed to help busy families by creating carpool calendars based on their schedules and driving availability.

Since its launch last fall, parents across the nation—in all 50 states, have been reaping the benefits of Divide The Ride, a free service which utilizes web based technology. Parents, regardless of where they live in the United States, can use the service. Divide The Ride is remarkably fast and easy and getting started is simple. Parents choose families they know to join their carpool. Once carpool members are onboard, all participants enter their driving availability and Divide The Ride creates a carpool schedule for them—all in a few moments. The carpool schedule is emailed to everyone in the group along with text messages and email reminders. Divide The Ride eliminates the time, effort and often confusion that can go along with traditional carpool scheduling.

“Divide The Ride is proving to be a valuable and much needed carpooling tool for parents across the country, as families continues to feel the pinch of the highest gas prices in U.S. history,” said Bryn Tindall, founder of Divide The Ride. “Parents who carpool are finding that they are not fueling up as often which means less money spent on gasoline, and this is especially helpful for families given the current state of the economy. Earth Day is a great reminder that we can all find practical ways of reducing our daily carbon footprint on the environment. If all parents instituted carpooling in their daily lives, the impact on the environment would be great.”

In an effort to make Divide The Ride even more user friendly, newly created features have been added including a mapping system. Located in the Organizers and Directors section on the Divide the Ride website, this mapping system provides coaches, teachers and other organizers the ability to utilize interactive maps which show where all the families in their group live, as well as the proximity to the primary location where an event is held. This safe and secure feature provides an easy way for the families in a group to locate other parents whom they would like to carpool with.

About Divide The Ride
Divide The Ride provides parents with a free, secure and easy to use method of creating carpools with families they know and trust. Using web-based technology, Divide The Ride helps busy parents by creating on-line carpool calendars based on parents’ schedules and driving availability. What makes Divide The Ride unique is its ability to create a schedule of driving assignments based upon each parent’s individual needs. The carpool calendar is then emailed to everyone in the group along with text messages and email reminders. Divide The Ride is a free service and all information is safe and secure. For more information, visit www.dividetheride.com.

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