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Reaping the benefits of two years carpooling

What do you get when you put four ladies in a car? Extra money in your bank account! Since September 2009, just a few months after Let’s Carpool was launched, Yvette and her carpoolers have been counting their savings as they drive together from Raumati South to Lower Hutt each day. That's almost two years of savings.

It’s a simple arrangement where each carpooler drives their car one week a month, and then sits back and enjoys the ride for the other three weeks.

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I've got company driving to work and back everyday

Kapiti Coast carpoolers win big!

                  
Matt Grover and his wife moved up the coast to Ohau last year but were determined to keep their jobs in Wellington. They found themselves spending around $150 a week on transport into the city.

“At first we didn’t think twice about it and thought it was a necessary sacrifice to have the relaxing weekend lifestyle we wanted. We had seen news stories of happy carpoolers driving to work and often wondered if it would work. One quiet afternoon at work I thought I would do a bit of digging around and stumbled across www.letscarpool.govt.nz. After a few clicks I had managed to find the perfect match! A husband and Wife who worked just up the road from us, and had a free car park in the city too. Times and days of travel was spot on! Thinking it was too good to be true I called the matching commuter and made an arrangement to trial run the following week. We agreed to split the cost of petrol 4 ways and pay weekly by bank deposit.

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"After a few clicks I had managed to find the perfect match!"

Brenda and Marquerite carpool over the hill

Brenda and Marquerite

Sharing the driving, sharing costs, free parking and door-to-door transport to and from work have made Masterton women Marquerite and Brenda committed carpooling commuters.


A ‘Let’s Carpool’ banner at the bottom of the Rimutakas, on the Featherston side, spurred Marquerite to log on to the carpooling website, run by Greater Wellington Regional Council. “I was keen to see if registering would help me find somebody to share the daily commute with instead of being the only person in the car every day.

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"Brenda and I carpool every day and alternate the driving. It works perfectly"
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