ADVISORY/Twelve Washingtonians to Go Carless for an Entire Month as Part of the Flexcar Challenge.Business/News Editors & City Desks ADVISORY...For Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant (Sept. 6) WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2002 "Could you live without your car for an entire month?" That's the question That's the Question is an American quiz game show on GSN, hosted by game show veteran and former Entertainment Tonight reporter, Bob Goen, which premiered in October 2006. 12 Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , D.C.-area residents are going to answer when they begin the Flexcar Flexcar is a for-profit car sharing company, the oldest and second-largest (behind Boston-based Zipcar) in the United States. Flexcar can date its origins to March 1998, when its Portland, Oregon office was founded as a separate company (Car Sharing Portland) by David Brook; Challenge this Friday, September 6. Sponsored by Flexcar, the nation's largest and oldest car-sharing service, the Flexcar Challenge pits men and women against the notion that having a car is a necessity. Participants in the month-long event have agreed to hand over their car keys and travel for 30 days -- to work, the gym, the grocery store -- everywhere -- by means of alternative transportation such as the bus, train, bicycle bicycle, light, two-wheeled vehicle driven by pedals. The name velocipede is often given to early forms of the bicycle and to its predecessor, the dandy horse, a two-wheeled vehicle moved by the thrust of the rider's feet upon the ground. , carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. and Flexcar. Each participant will keep a journal of his or her experiences which Flexcar will share as the month progresses.
WHAT: Opening Ceremony for the Flexcar Challenge, in which twelve
D.C.-area citizens will give up their cars for an entire month and
travel by means of "alternative" transportation, thus reducing
traffic, pollution and dependence on foreign oil. There will be a
"handoff" ceremony in which participants hand over the keys to
their car and receive a Flexcar key and Flexcar Challenge
Participant Kit.
WHEN: Friday, September 6, 2002
9:30 a.m. ET
MEDIA NOTE: Flexcar representatives will be available as early as
7 a.m. ET for interviews and on-location shots.
WHERE: Gallery Place-Chinatown Metrorail Station, (corner of
Seventh and F Streets, NW)
WHO: Flexcar Challenge participants and company executives will be
on hand to discuss car-sharing and its impact on transit, the
environment and more.
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