City Wheels Cleveland

In yet another stroke to make the city and surrounding areas more accessible to those of us whom don't want the burden of automobile ownership City Wheels has opened a car sharing office to service Northeast Ohio.

Offering cars for an hourly rate (adjusted if you pay a monthly fee) this plan may be for you...

Is CityWheels for you?

It's probably not if -

• You're under 21
• You have more than two points on your driving record
• You regularly depend on a vehicle for emergency or urgent use (i.e., you are a doctor on call)
• Your regular commute is not accessible by public transportation, walking or biking
• You live on a farm or in the distant suburbs and drive to the city every day
• You really love your Hummer
• You have lots of extra money lying around to spend on insurance, gasoline, maintenance, parking and car payments.
• Each of your cars clocks more than 10,000 miles a year

But, it might be for you if -

• You're over 21 with a good driving record
• You have vehicles being driven less than 10,000 miles a year
• You don't need a car for your regular daily commute
• Your household owns multiple vehicles and could conceivably "downsize" by one or more
• Your company's employees occasionally need a car (to attend meetings, run errands, etc) but would rather not drive to work every day
• You dislike sitting in traffic
• You care about the environment
• You want to do your part to improve the city you live in
• You're up for saving a few thousand dollars a year.

I don't want to be labeled as attempting to propagate an automobile based society, however I do believe that programs like this actually remove cars from the road by not only providing access to an automobile when it is necessary and therefore not to be used as a crutch for relatively easy journeys (such as walking to the corner store *COUGH*) which will hopefully release us from the neverending circle of asphalt addiction, at least a little bit.