Liftshare.com drivers share 100 million miles per year

Members of UK car-sharing network lifeshare.com are clocking up one hundred million miles of road travel every year, the website revealed this week.

The Norfolk based company calculated the figure using the current level of sharing by website members and the journeys registered on the system.

Ali Clabburn, lifeshare.com founder, said: “One hundred million miles is a phenomenal figure – almost too large to comprehend.

“The financial and environmental implications for this are also self-evident.”

Lift-sharing saves money as petrol costs are shared between passengers. It reduces local congestion, cuts back on carbon emissions, and is a more sociable means of transport.

Members of the liftshare.com website currently take 40,000 cars off the UK’s roads every day.

Typically, a member of the website using liftshare for their daily commute saves £1,000 a year on fuel costs and around one tonne of CO2 emissions.

Liftshare.com member Norman Hadleigh calculates that he shares 18,000 miles every year.

“That’s about three-quarters the length of the equator,” he said. “Or driving from London to the west coast of Australia and back.”

He added: “Car-sharing really opens your eyes to the thousands of cars trundling up and down Britain’s roads with just one occupant.

“Day after day, they take up the same 50 feet of highway, probably tailing the same car as the day before.

“It’s madness.

“By car-sharing, we could easily halve the amount of traffic on our nation’s rush-hour roads.”