Carpool from IP to Welcome Celebration

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This posting is from: Courtney
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As far as parking for the WC on Monday, what about car pooling
from the IP, Those who need rides, and those have rides could
meet at a spot in the hotel and go from there. Or group cab
riding from the same place.

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[annie]

How about this. Let's start a thread here on the Discussion Forum on this topic, asking drivers to volunteer with the number of free seats they have and those who need a ride saying so. On MyDLV we'll mark it "sticky" so it stays at the top for now.

Anybody who needs a ride to the Welcome Celebration (at your own risk, of course), please post a note here.

If you're driving and can take others, ditto.

We might also consider this for the EHM on Tuesday, since they have said that parking is somewhat limited.

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This posting is from: Rosada Delano
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Again, we can accommodate two extra people in our back seat.

Rosada

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[annie]

> Again, we can accommodate two extra people in our back seat.

How about this?

Let's just say that anybody who's driving to the Welcome Celebration from the IP, and anybody who needs a ride, just meet at Betty's Cyber Cafe (the rendezvous point for several DLV activities - well noted in the Large Final Mailing) at 5:45 on Monday evening.

If those driving have enough seats, it's a win-win. If there are not enough seats, those who need a ride can share a taxi. (Using a taxi in Las Vegas is very "safe", even for beginners.)

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This posting is from: Alice B
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I have a Surburban that can carry 5, besides myself. Bit of a squeeze
getting two into back seat, but can be done. I'll be at the IP and am
willing to give rides to events that I am also going to.

Alice B

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[Sara]

> I have a Surburban that can carry 5, besides myself. Bit of a squeeze
> getting two into back seat, but can be done. I'll be at the IP and am
> willing to give rides to events that I am also going to.

I believe I have one of these seats in Alice's suburban...thanks a bunch Alice!!!!!

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This posting is from: Alice B
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> I believe I have one of these seats in Alice's suburban...thanks a
> bunch Alice!!!!! :)

Your are in.

Alice

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This posting is from: kumiko yvonne watanabe
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With this discussion about car-pooling,
it really sounds like its still wanted or needed
to match those that need rides with those
that have cars and are driving.

If this is still a need for alot of people attending
DLV, then it was wrong or premature to
have gotten rid of the carpool schedule for
rides for DLV several months ago.

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[annie]

> If this is still a need for alot of people attending
> DLV, then it was wrong or premature to
> have gotten rid of the carpool schedule for
> rides for DLV several months ago.

If you're talking about the elimination of the "Ride Share Program", that was back in the summer of 2009.

Our Ride Share Program was simply a list of volunteer drivers and those who needed rides, and not really a carpool schedule or anything like that. It worked well during the early years, but as we grew, it just didn't work.

The main reason it was scrapped is that it resulted in more b*tching than it did the effective use of shared rides. Since I was the one who heard most of the complaints, I'll highlight a few issues.

Riders were complaining that there was no convenient way of getting in touch with a driver, and I admit that this was a valid point. Other complaints included drivers who were late, did not show, or backed out at short notice.

Drivers complained that some riders were too demanding, expecting them to be at the riders' beck and call. That was the gist of most of the complaints I recall. Others were such things as riders being late (thus causing the whole car to be late) or not showing at all. In the early 2000s we had a slew of complaints regarding unwanted smoking in nonsmokers' vehicles but that appeared to be connected with one individual.

After 2005 or so, several of those who were regular volunteer drivers stopped volunteering, and simply offered rides to those they knew on a case by case basis.

The ORG group had two choices, either adopt a more organized and formalized ride share program, or ash-can the existing program, leaving transportation up to the individual. The choice was for the latter, by acclamation, with no dissension. Individuals are still free to organize ad-hoc car pools for various activities, informally.

There's also the question of the liability assumed for a more organized ride share program.