Carpooling / Ride Sharing
Sharing is Kindness - kind on your pocket and kind on the planetPlace a request or an offer in the comments field below pertaining to your requirements. Find or request a carpool partner or companion for your regular commute. Make it a one-off or ongoing.
Why Ride-share/Carpool?
For many commuters who drive to the city, ride-sharing (or carpooling) offers many benefits:
- Save money by sharing the steadily rising costs of driving with other commuters
- Save the environment by polluting less
- Save precious resources for future generations (oil reserves are finite)
- Save the narrow ribbon of road we all depend upon – fewer cars mean less wear
- Save (share) the stress of driving
How it Works
Our aim is to help people offering rides and those requiring a ride to find each other. After that, it’s over to you to make arrangements to suit you both, including a contribution for petrol money.
Using this temporary blog function, Leave a comment below with your requirement, name and contact and the interested parties will reply. It’s all go from there.
If you are not comfortable doing this here, there is also a government carpooling website you can register for FREE here – Let’s Carpool
Kia ora, I am starting work at University of Canterbury and looking to carpool as it is a long trip by public transport, which would be my preference. Preferably to take turns driving, aiming to get there about 9am on days I am working and leaving there about 4pm.
Due to recent heart surgery, I’m not allowed to drive for 6 months. I need a lift to Hillmorton 2-3 days a week. Phone/txt 021 708 470
Hi, Diana, I need to go to Burwood Hospital on 19 June, and will have to spend at least half a day there. I have to find someone to drive me – do you know anyone who will?
Looking to Carpool and requiring a Ride or offering a Ride? Use this comments field.
Hi, I am living in Diamond Harbour and working Mon-Fri at Rolleston College. I would love to find someone to lift-share with to save on the costs of driving every day and limit the wear on our cars, plus reduce our impact on the environment. I need to leave DH between 6.45-7.30am and then leave Rolleston between 4-5pm. Can anyone help? Every day or even 1-2 days a week would be great. Alternatively, is there anyone who would be willing to share lifts to Lincoln and I can catch a lift with a colleague from there…