“When I first started riding, the line of cars would go around the corner,” said agreed Jon Jackson, 54, who has ridden in casual carpools for about eight years. “Now, it seems like the riders are the ones having the long lines,” he said.
Traffic is lighter, riders and drivers say, even accounting for the typical summer slowdown, and they blame fuel prices.
The Washington, D.C. area has a similar system, in which riders are known as “slugs,” but the idea of car-pooling draws blank stares in other parts of the country.
Rider Linda Carrillo remembers telling her sister in Richmond, Virginia about it. “She just thinks it is the most bizarre thing in the world. That it would never go over in Richmond — people would never get in the car with strangers.” Continued…
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