According to the Downtown Partnership, ZipCar, the car sharing company, is bringing a bunch of cars to the downtown area later this month.
ZipCar already services the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus area, but decided not to expand -- until now.
The Downtown Partnership said visitors and residents will want to use the service if they have no car and can't get to where they want to go on public transit. And companies can use ZipCar instead of maintaining their own fleet.
With ZipCar, you pay a fee and drive the cars and the company takes care of the maintenance and insurance. They leave cars around town. The downtown group say they're assessing demand to see where to put the cars now.
If you're a downtown business and want to become a ZipCar member, email info@dpob.org. Or go to www.zipcar.com for more information about the service.
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