Carpooling need not be restircted to short distance and daily commuting only. They can be considered for long distances and regular long distance travellers, e.g who drive from the city they work in to the city they have their family in(link myself) on week-ends.

This site is really well built and works like a social networking ite connecting peole who want to carpool. I not only save the cost of my trip, but also have a very social experience while making the trip.

Many thanks for your comments. I am not sure where you are from Karla but you may find the iwalktoschool.org website of some value. All the things you are talking about are only voluntary in England, and consequently many schools have only half – heartedly adopted sustainable transport initiatives. We also are under the policy flaw that government education policy offers choice of school, which often exacerbates the amount of vehicle traffic.

Kind regards, Andrew

I have become more of a walking activist. Out of frustration with local governments hear not doing enough or little to encourage walking especially with young people. Some areas are doing amazing work, most purely funded State projects especially encouraging walk to school behaviour to challenge the driving kids to school habit. In the future it would be good to see government make transport to school a priority, having schools take on board how their kids get to the place of education. Minimise parking directly to the school to encourage park and walk. Traffic congestion causes so much anger and frustration between parents and a safety issue for kids. Childhood obesity can be prevented just by taking steps every day. I would like to see all local governments take on the active travel issue in partnership with schools as a core business because the problem is not going away until we get the long term solution being: people realise we need to consider whether we really need to use the car for that short trip or not.