Property News · June 12, 2016

Ridesharing offers a cut-price ticket to Europe, but not many Britons use it


We know all about Airbnb for a cheap place to stay, but show little interest in sharing car space – which lowers the price of getting thereWhen he was a student in Toulouse, François Delattre found his regular train trip to Paris frustratingly slow, so he turned to paying drivers to “rent” a seat in their vehicle for the journey via internet forums. Ten years later he regularly takes passengers in his own car when travelling from his home in east London to France, a journey he makes every few months, charging for their seats and offsetting his costs.While this concept of ridesharing is enormously popular in continental Europe – most of his passengers are French – one of the largest growing areas of the sharing economy has failed to grab hold of the British public consciousness in the same way as renting out rooms via Airbnb. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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