Casual Carpooling Is Business As Usual In Bay Area

The casual carpool system in the East Bay is quite possibly a utopian vision come to life. And it's been operating for more than 20 years.

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June 27, 2001, 6:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera


"Everybody talks about it. It's an institution," said Iser Cukierman of Montclair. He's refering to the grassroots phenomenon that occurs regularly from about 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday. It's the result of a system that involves, by an estimate from the Rides for Bay Area Commuters report, about 8,000 East Bay people every weekday. This is how it works: at designated pick-up points throughout the East Bay (from as far and wide as Vallejo, Richmond, Orinda and Fruitvale), people who would otherwise never do such a thing get in the car of a perfect stranger who drives them to San Francisco."

Thanks to Christian Peralta

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