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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Commuters often times have trouble finding a parking spot on those busy mornings where everyone else is looking for one, too. British entrepreneur Tom Page may have come up with a solution to this problem. 18 year old Page thought of the idea while he was working for a UK company. Apparently parking is really bad on the other side of the Pond because Tom was having to park about 30 minutes away. This guy came up with the idea for homeowners to rent out their driveways on a 5-7 day time period. The idea is that commuters rent the space they want so they don’t have to spend time looking for one.
www.youcanpark.com is potentially beneficial to both driveway owners and commuters. Owners can earn some extra income (as long as they don’t need their driveway the entire day) and commuters are guaranteed to have a parking place when they come to work in the morning.
The new company who organizes (or organises if you are English) the project is based in Bristol where they have over 7000 daily commuters. The company provides their services to locations all over the UK. The company is also developing www.youcanshare.com so commuters can see other commuters who are going the same direction and can coordinate carpooling.