Last week Adrienne Campbell wrote about her experiences of being free from car ownership and setting up a car share club - this is welcome news. She isn’t alone and car share clubs are nothing new. The first club in Lewes was set up in 1994 and the idea is thriving in Brighton where three clubs have been set up. There are a number of organisations that can help to groups start up their own community car scheme. A visit to the Carplus website will be a good place to start or the WhizzGo organisation. Both these groups have set up clubs in Brighton & Hove.

Adrienne wanted to know if the County Council would help. The quick answer is yes. We are always keen to help groups to help each other. We don’t have the resources to set up the schemes or to manage them but we would do whatever we could to find ways of accommodating these cars close to where they are needed. If you don’t need a car for anything other than a daily trip to work the County Council have a car share data base which matches individuals, drivers and passengers, to regular trips - like daily commuting. The service is part of a national scheme with over 135,000 members already registered and its FREE. All you have to do is log onto www.travelchoice.org and register your trip - it can be used for regular journeys or one off’s. Over 400 members of our own staff have joined TravelChoice so we know it works. BD