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eco-friendly trips
Show you care –
Tripshare!
Looking for a practical way to reduce your carbon footprint and do just that little bit more for the
wonderful environment that makes Dumfries & Galloway so special? Why not consider car-
sharing and you can save the planet, and save money at the same time?
In today’s day and age, everyone is looking to save a little Well, it simply means you giving or accepting lifts either every
money and do their bit for the environment, but it’s not often day or for a single journey. Whether it’s your journey to work,
that you get the chance to do both at once. But thanks to the or a trip somewhere different, you could still share.
Tripshare initiative that’s running in the region, you can do By logging on to www.dgtripshare.com you could find
exactly that! people who are going the same route as you, and you could
The aim is simple – for two or more people to travel go together. The website helps match people who travel on
together using the same car. But what exactly is car sharing? similar routes, but who might not know each other. By putting
Why Tripshare?
lIt’s free to use – you simply share the travel costs.
lIt simply links people together doing similar journeys
at similar times.
lYou can save yourself £££ and reduce your CO
2
emissions.
lThere are already more than 341,000 members of the
UK’s liftshare network.
lOn average our members save £778.26 a year.
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