For every 10 new members, CarShare will put one new car on the road, York said. The ultimate goal is to have a car in every Boulder neighborhood. CarShare is in the middle of a membership drive. Applicants must be 25, or 21 and a student. Background checks assure only good drivers are accepted.
Boulder is just one of many U.S. cities to embrace the popular European idea of car sharing.
Portland formed the first car-sharing program in the U.S. in 1998, and has been joined by Aspen, Seattle, Boston and San Francisco. Seattle's Flexcar program, which formed in 2000, is the largest program in the U.S. with 45 cars for 1,400 members.