The City is starting its One Less Car Challenge, which provides tremendous incentives for residents who drive less. There are two levels, the first you drive less for a month, and you can earn up to $100 in flexcar credits, and in the second, you sell your car and can get as much as $600 in flexcar credits.

Pretty good deal for those who aren’t sure whether they need a car or not!

Any of you plan on doing it?

8 Replies to “One Less Car Challenge”

  1. I actually participated in the program last summer and enjoyed it very much.

    I found that I really DON’T need “my own” car to get around town. As much as I wanted to sell my car and go full time, however, my partner wasn’t comfortable going down to a one-car house. :(

  2. i did it a number of years ago when they paid you something like $85 to give up your car

    it was an excellent program and a good way to show others that it’s totally possible to live without a car in the city.

  3. i should say above – they paid you $85/week to give up your car

    with gas prices roughly 2-3x where they were back then, the weekly stipend would probably go to $120-150 but for whatever reason they’re doing the money part differently now

  4. I really like the idea behind this program. I-5 shutting down for a few weeks was all the incentive needed to push some people into the arms of the Sounder, so I bet you could get the same results here. With gas prices where they are, is there as much incentive needed to push people out of their cars?
    Transit – Because you can nap on the way to work.

  5. Although FlexCar is a whole lot better than each of us owning our own cars as far as resource consumption, wouldn’t encouraging vanpools somehow be better for the environment, and an overall reduction of stress for a person participating in one? Rather than driving every day, you’d rotate whenever possible.

    Doesn’t Metro have one of the largest vanpool fleets in the U.S.?

  7. 47hasbegun, I think the goal is to replace commuting trips with vanpools or transit, and to use flexcar for errands etc…

    Although I’m amazed they actually listed Flexcar in the documents since it is now Zipcar…..

  8. Yes, that page hasn’t been updated to reflect the zipcar/flexcar merger. I wonder if zipcar will still offer those same benefits as they don’t have many discounts that flexcar offered.

    In any case, $600 in zipcar dollars will get you less than $600 did in flexcar dollars.

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