And I’ve heard similar thoughts from people who contacted me when I shared that Zipcar was gone on Facebook. I feel the same – my car was stolen, but I made the intentional choice to not buy a new car because I knew I had a reliable backup if needed. Zipcar was one of the main reasons I went for it.” I knew after trying it out that with a reliable, easy-to-use service an easy 5 minute bike ride away, I could live without a car in Phoenix, somewhere that most people would never think it was possible. I started using Zipcar even when I still owned my car to see if it was something that would work for me. “I had put off selling my car for over a year, because I just didn’t know if it could work. Ryan and I have been using the service for years now, and in fact, Zipcar was a main reason he decided to sell his car in the first place: There are other similar services too - like Car2Go, Hertz 24/7, RelayRides - but they have little to no presence in Phoenix. Mostly, they center around urban cores where car-free or car-lite living is a possibility. Zipcar-if you’re unaware of the company-is a very convenient service that provides shared car rentals to many communities worldwide and had been located at ASU Downtown since 2008. Photo Credit: Jack Kurtz/ The Arizona Republic Downtown Residents Miss Zipcar And of course, lucky for us Downtown residents, ASU’s agreement with Enterprise does not allow memberships for anyone but students or faculty…which seems like an unfortunate oversight coming from ASU, who has kept the community in mind in other instances. It seems like ASU signed a new agreement with Enterprise to replace their contract with Zipcar. Enterprise Car Share vehicles have taken the spot of the previous Zipcars. We figured there had to be more to the story and there was. With further investigating, we found that the cars weren’t booked up… they were gone completely. We figured it was just a fluke, and maybe all the cars were booked up as they sometimes are. We were trying to book our weekly grocery and errand runs, and kept seeing that no cars were available. Sign up here.Įarlier this month, we found out that Zipcar, a car sharing service that rents by the hour, no longer had cars in Downtown Phoenix.
#Zipcar locations update
Update 11/10: Enterprise Carshare has now opened up their service to community members. Update 9/24: Zipcar is back! 2 cars are now located within Roosevelt Point at 3rd St and Roosevelt. Update 9/1: Good news – ASU is requesting that Enterprise Car Share be available to all residents. We hope this ends with a new Zipcar or two in the Downtown area so non-ASU people can enjoy this important urban amenity. We are still actively engaging with them via phone and email, and the Mayor’s office is working to contact them and locate new spaces for its service. Status Update 8/31: Zipcar provided no notice to its members about the change and have given everyone scattered non-answers since.
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