Share a lift in February and be entered into our £500 prize draw. Five lucky Liftshare team members will be chosen at random, each winning a £100 Love2Shop voucher. As well as this chance to win, kick off February with more money in your pocket by lift-sharing. Cut your travel costs in half by sharing with just one…

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The theme of this year’s National Liftshare Week was: ‘Turning journey matches into sharers’. We know adding journeys to Liftshare – and asking our members to keep them up-to-date – leads to more sharing. So, we used this year’s event (which ran from 18-24th September) to encourage people to add, check and update their journeys. Great news – We saw…

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National Liftshare Week is a great opportunity to get more people involved in sharing lifts. As we’ve had so many new members join Liftshare this summer – a record 23,000 across July and August! – our aim for this year’s Liftshare Week is to get as many members as possible to add or update their journeys. It’ll mean members turn…

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Following the success of badges for pregnant and disabled customers, a commuter has launched ‘Tube Chat’ pins and is handing them out to Underground travellers – but receiving a mixed response. Londoners, who are stereotyped as quiet toward each other whilst travelling on the Underground, have proved a tougher audience for Jonathan Dunne, the man behind the idea, than…

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3rd-9th October is Liftshare Week, our annual celebration of all things car sharing, and the best time of the year to get involved and start sharing yourself! In addition to the usual cost saving, carbon saving and social benefits, there’s another incentive to give liftsharing a try: we’re offering up £250 in a prize draw to anyone who sends a message…

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An ‘automated garage’ has opened in the city of West Hollywood, California, that parks cars itself. The garage and community plaza uses automated parking technology as a way of increasing parking capacity for a growing city. The garage requires a much smaller physical footprint than a conventional parking structure would, and the space saved has allowed for a 7,000 sq…

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The Chinese ride sharing service Didi Chuxing, who last month bought Uber’s operations in the country, have announced an investment of “tens of millions of dollars” in a bike sharing platform. Looking to expand and offer their customers more than just on-demand rides in cars, the company have invested in Peking start-up ofo, who specialise in bike sharing. It’s now expected that Didi…

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At the beginning of the summer, we hosted a competition for Liftshare members to win a pair of tickets for the Isle Of Wight Festival by joining the festival’s own Liftshare scheme. IOW offer priority parking for those liftsharing to and from the event, so it’s always…

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Festivals can be expensive thanks to all the camping gear, travel, food and other supplies needed to get through the weekend with your stuff (and sanity) intact. The problem is, you need all of that stuff to avoid the usual festival horrors of soggy socks, wellies stuck in mud and phone batteries dying on the first day. Liftshare loves helping festival-goers enjoy a smooth…

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