Website set up to encourage more car pooling

THE National Transport Authority is aiming to succeed where several private initiatives have failed by launching a website designed to encourage more people to engage in car pooling.

The new website — www.carsharing.ie — hopes to get people to sign up to share car journeys and lower motoring costs as well as ease congestion and parking problems.

The website which has been developed by the NTA was formally launched by junior Transport Minister Alan Kelly yesterday as part of the Government’s smarter travel initiatives.