The Edinburgh City Car Club potentially offers a compromise solution to this dilemma, allowing members to dispense with the overheads of keeping a car on the road whilst having easy and affordable access to a car when really necessary.
This exciting new pay-as-you-drive car share scheme will be managed by Lothian and Edinburgh Environmental Partnership (LEEP) in conjunction with the City of Edinburgh Council. Subject to negotiations, Budget Car and Van Rental has been selected to operate the service and have made a positive long term commitment to the scheme, proposing a flexible and competitive hire tariff rate and structure.
The start up date for the scheme has yet to be finalised but it is expected that this will be early in 1999 or sooner if possible with the first "on street parking stations" appearing in the Marchmont/Sciennes area of Edinburgh. The potential for "off street stations" (which do not need to go through a 6 month statutory procedure) and other imaginative ways of delivering the service are also being explored by Budget.
For more information, please contact either Roger Haydon (LEEP) on (0131) 555 4010 or Brian Torrance (Edinburgh Council) on (0131) 469 3621. You can be kept informed of developments by asking to be put on the scheme’s mailing list.