September 06, 2006

Zipcar comes to the College

More than two years after a campus controversy surrounding a proposed parking lot in the pines behind the tennis courts, one of the solutions offered has finally come to fruition: Zipcar is coming to Amherst College.

Zipcar is a “car-sharing” service which maintains a small pool of vehicles which are available to subscribers on a reservation basis. After two years of a pilot program at Wellesley College, Zipcar is now making the cars available to students over 18 years old at both the College and Smith College. Not only does Zipcar reduce the need for student-owned cars on campus—hopefully reducing pressure on the College’s existing parking lots—but it provides first-year students with an end-run around campus parking regulations, which currently require them to have special permission from the Dean of Students to have a car on campus.

Parker Morse '96 | September 6, 2006 10:23 AM | Campus

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