GOCARSHARE LAUNCHES PHONE AP TO HELP PEOPLE GET TO FESTIVALS
goCarShare launches the UK’s first dedicated free car sharing i-Phone app – which will help festival goers get there without needing to rely on crammed buses or trains.
It’s a standard problem – you’ve having a good time at a festival, really great in fact, only now your mate who you were going to get a lift off, can’t give you a lift anymore. And now you are stuck, really stuck. Not anymore, with the new goCarShare iPhone app, festival-goers will be able to link up ‘on the fly’. The app maps your current location, with a pinch and click, you’ll have a range of people to share the ride back just a phone call away.
goCarShare.com has already linked up with over 50 of the top Summer festivals and is working with festivals in innovative ways to help people share journeys. The Secret Garden Party introduced a £2.50 empty car seats tax for drivers coming to the festival. The result? 291 drivers added their details on goCarShare.com, saving themselves from having to pay the tax, but also getting a contribution to the travel costs (helpful in a time of ever rising fuel prices) and slept guilt free, safe in the knowledge that they had done their bit for the environment.
Steve Jenner, Digital Director, Sonisphere Festival, said: “On goCarShare: It’s convenient for our customers to do their bit for the environment and also provides them with a cheap and sociable way to get to the event and back. Hats off!”
More info at www.gocarshare.com/festivals
