(Courtesy Clean Air Campaign)
Soaring gas prices are making carpooling an appealing option to more and more Georgians. Columbus in southwestern Georgia has limited mass transit, but is helping people cope with pain at the pump by promoting carpooling.
The Clean Air Campaign and the Air Quality Alliance of the Chattahoochee Valley offer the money-saving measure:
“There are several options available to people who would like alternative means of commuting to their job, and there are options for commuters who are currently driving alone, and would like to begin using a clean-commute alternative," according to Tracy Hall of the Columbus City Planning Department. "There are also rewards available for people who are already carpooling."Hall says carpoolers can get a monthly gas card worth forty to sixty dollars, by logging their travel distance through a website.
Several Columbus-area companies have already signed up, TSYS among them. The Georgia Department of Transportation-funded program is available to commuters statewide.
More details are online at www.commuterrewards.com and at www.cleanaircampaign.com.
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