Form a Car-Pool now!

Cars

Don't drive them when you can walk or cycle. Support the dying buses.

If you live miles out, operate a Car Pool don't all have cars.

Since reading the above quotation from last year's Salient, I have heard of hundreds of invitations to buy this car or that. I've heard of no invitations to join a car pool or of any pool being formed. The time has surely come to get a varsity car pool started and to spread the idea to the rest of the community,

A car pool is simply a form of organisation to enable a large group of people to use a number of vehicles in the most efficient way. In this case the cars and the organisation would be centred at the university. The 'car pool' need not be confined to cars; motor scooters, small buses, even caravans and boats could be included. The pool would need a constitution and an annual membership type structure subscription from members. People already owning cars could sell or lease it to the pool and automatically become members.

With the spread of community instead of private ownership of vehicles it would once again be possible to have suburbs designed around the needs of people instead of the needs of cars.

Often individuals when buying a car consider doing it in partnership. Usually they reject the idea because of inevitable personality conflicts. But ten people using one car should present less of a problem than one car between two people as the community interest should prevail. Since ten cars among 100 people is a more flexible proposition than one car among ten the success of the pool system depends on everybody's support.

A list is in the Contact Office to place your name if you are at all interested. A meeting wilt be held to work out plans for the car pool as soon as there are enough people to make it viable.

— Peter von Hartitzsch