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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Car sharing isn’t compulsory – but is it the sustainable transport hack of the future?

Simon Calder

Compulsory car-sharing has been officially scrapped by the prime minister. The announcement took many in transport circles by surprise, since the only place in the known world where the practice has ever been mandatory is communist Cuba; there were no proposals to adopt it in the UK.

Yet perhaps Rishi Sunak’s surprise pledge might encourage travellers to look again at car sharing as an option on environmental and economic grounds.

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