Bonus Brigade launches a movement to promote free community car sharing

Zoltán Kaprinay, managing director of the Bonus Brigade , said in the initiative, in many cars only the driver is sitting, the other seats are empty. They are advised to take passengers to free places, take them when their destination is shared. Doing so will not only do good, but can also create new relationships and reduce the environmental burden, ”he added. In addition, environmentalists see one of the most effective tools to prevent traffic jams in the voluntary distribution of cars, pulling down urban traffic.

He said: Anyone can sign up for the unpaid sharing model on bonusz.hu/elviszlek. Anyone who does this will send a special "#elviszlek" sticker that is easy to put on the windshield and can be removed at any time, and then returned.

Bonus Brigade wants to achieve at least a thousand drivers within a few months by launching a favored passenger movement . He explained that the Bonus Brigade considers it a mission to do good with people, take them to good places, and get them good experiences. "We are now expanding this mission to everyday life and urban travel," he said.

The Bonus Brigade launches the movement with its own car , which is used only by its employees to promote the shared model, but in addition, the company's 60 employees register on the site and bring their passengers to the shuttle-free car for free. #Elviszlek who sees a car sticker, exhorting calm down, but when you are at the bus stop in a car with a sticker, you will not have any of the parties show that what it's about, simply can travel together.

Passengers enrolled free of charge have only the task of posting a vehicle with a hashtag in order to make the movement known and to increase the number of motorists involved in favor-based passenger transport.

There are also examples of community car sharing in Hungary, but this solution is paid because travelers share costs with each other. In contrast, the Bonus Brigade launches a free movement.

A similar service is popular in Switzerland and was created by some environmentalists in the 1980s. Starting as a nonprofit company, it has been so successful that since 1997, the service has been relocated to business bases called Mobility CarSharing.

"We are committed to bringing the community atmosphere that we experience among our users in the virtual space and reducing air pollution, making Budapest and other cities more viable in Hungary," said Zoltán Kaprinay.

He added that a temporary initiative similar to that of Switzerland was already in Hungary in January 2010 at the time of the BKV strike, when a car-sharing movement was organized. Volunteer vendors and passengers have access to their own website, blog and community site. The idea manager was the 4K! -National Republic movement known for the community games and the Colabs community that promoted community work. The initiative was so popular that the site, due to overload, became almost inaccessible to many aspects; on the Facebook community site in less than a day, 3400 fans took the initiative.

He recalled the public is estimated that nationally 14 thousand lives demands of air pollution each year and shows the seriousness of the situation, that is November beginning-middle of the smog alert information degree of proximity to Budapest's air quality has deteriorated while in Nyíregyháza due to the increase in particulate matter (PM10) concentrations life the degree of information from the smog alarms .

The video was made thanks to the Bonus Brigade's strategic car partner Speedzone.

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(Source: marmalade.co.uk | pics: editorial | video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=FPifugvpVhg)