Posted on 08/02/2015 2:29:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A first-of-its-kind car-sharing program will give residents of Los Angeles' neglected neighborhoods access to carbon-free transportation.
Electric vehicles have helped people save money and curb their greenhouse gas emissions. But for those with less cash to spare, those benefits have been largely out of reach.
Now a first-of-its-kind E.V. car-sharing program in Los Angeles aims to put the citys low-income residentssome of whom have to walk a mile to the closest bus stopbehind the wheel of convenient and carbon-free transportation.
It will help improve the lives of every Angeleno in these neighborhoods by offering them options they dont have, said Matt Petersen, Los Angeles chief sustainability officer. The program will advance Los Angeles goals of clean air, use of mass transit, and increased access to mass transit.
The $1.6 million state-funded programwhich is part of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcettis sustainability plan, an ambitious effort that seeks to improve environmental health in the citys most disadvantaged neighborhoods by 2025. Funding comes from the proceeds of Californias carbon cap-and-trade program.
The program, part of the state's Charge Ahead initiative, will put 80 to 100 electric cars on the road sometime next year and build electric vehicle charging stations in the working-class neighborhoods of Westlake, Pico Union, Boyle Heights, and Koreatown. By making the cars available for up to 7,000 drivers, it will eliminate the potential purchase of 1,000 gas-powered cars and 2,150 tons of CO2 emissions a year, Petersen said.
Anyone will be able to use the cars by paying a membership fee and hourly rates. Those who meet specific income requirementsstill to be determinedwill receive a discount. Carpoolers will also pay less than solo drivers.
The service wants to benefit Angelenos such as Rosa, a Mexican immigrant and Koreatown resident who walks a mile to take the bus for her daily trip to the grocery store, according to Brady Collins, the development associate for Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, a neighborhood nonprofit organization.
Just a few months ago, Rosa showed me a notebook with about 1,000 signatures she collected, Collins said. She wanted to petition Metro to get a bus stop closer to where residents live.
KIWAwhich organizes campaigns for the benefit of the neighborhoods predominantly Latino, Korean, Bangladeshi, and African American communityis one of the community groups advising the city on how to implement the car-sharing program.
Koreatowns poverty rate is three times higher than the Los Angeles County average, and many residents rely on public transportation to take them to jobs across town, Collins said.
For example, a number of Koreatown residents are domestic care workers and may need to get to Beverly Hills on the west side of L.A., he said. In those situations, it could take an hour and a half to two hours on the bus, whereas in a car it could take 25 minutes.
Though added access to a car may speed up resident commutes, Petersen believes that in many cases, residents will use the car-sharing program to get them to crosstown rapid transit bus lines more quickly.
This gives them a lower-cost option to meet their needs in situations that can only be served through a vehicle, he said. It helps provide options for the last-mile and first-mile connections with mass transit.
These same cars also require their own care, not the same as any other car, but I would not spontaneously trust thrm not to get trashed in the neighborhood. It just seems better when someone actually has to buy the electric car that he/she uses.
Ummm... When they find out what is in the drivetrain that can be turned into high dollar amounts for scrap.
Look at this thing though it is brilliant. This entity is probably getting federal and state $ dollars ( Just like Tesla ) for buying these things, so it is underwritten. The Org that is running it is probably Union State worker and their has got to be an Obama grant in their somewhere via HUD etc. So it is community outreach, someone else is paying for it, and you build DNC voters for eternity. Brilliant, until the Germans, Saudi's etc stop buying our T-Bills...
Just like in the movie "Shaw-Shank-Redemption" the line about the Warden, "that his kickbacks had kickbacks" it applies to Obama and he is building the structure that Beck warned us about.
How does any of this nonsense get turned off?....
Most of the money is in the car battery. Maybe some more if you can salvage or recycle the materials in the vehicle’s body.
It will until they run out of other peoples money.
I have never been to LA and don’t plan to go there. But there must be a store closer to where she lives. If she walks a mile to the bus how far away is the store? And she goes every day? Maybe the stores in her area were looted & burned. That seems to be a common sport these days.
Those cheapskates!!! They are degrading those po folk by making them meet “requirements” and “pay” something for the use of the vehicle. Why...they should require the “white privileged” to take these po folk wherever and whenever they want to go. By the way...if this isn’t insanity, I don’t know what it. Sheesh!
Did not see any comments, just endless liberal globull warming BS articles.
The stupidity of liberals defies description.
ROFL
Obamaphone
Obamanet
now....Obamamobile
Now what could possibly be next?
But for those with less cash to spare, those benefits have been largely out of reach...
It also takes cash some have to spare and makes sure that those with some cash can not get one.
Just where do they think the electricity will come from to charge the batteries?
Soon everybody MUST join this Obamamobile plan. “If you like your car, you can keep your car, period!” It’s to save mother erf, doncha know....
Another free government program payed for and or subsidized by the American tax payer. enough
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Jeffrey Tong · ShangriLa
Car-share is NOT a solution - it is a TRANSITION to sustainability! USING a car is still a problem. Single occupancy vehicles still cause traffic congestion, and BIGGER carbon footprint.... than walk, bike, and bus. The latter 3 combined should be used for moderate distances, and train or plane for long distances. Where it is a hardship to use bike or bus, use car-share sparingly. BIG PICTURE: Problem is poor public transit infrastructure - caused by GM and Firestone deliberately destroying the urban transportation infrastructure back in 1938.
Obamacribs, I imagine.
Somebody’s gonna get electrocuted trying to strip the batteries out of one. (I think those Prius run on 220vdc)
Family will claim perp was turning his life around and was only attempting to get enough money to pay tuition .
Government gets sued for millions.
Apparently, someone doesn't "get it."
Who pays for the insurance? Taxpayers?
Taxpayer subsidized electric boondoggles for welfare recipients and illegal aliens.. Great!
I did, and I’ll never get the time back. What a bunch of effing morons.
So here’s an idea - photo essay of the interiors of these vehicles over the course of the first 30 days.
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