Thursday, June 12, 2008

Carpooling Made Easy

Have you ever noticed that every festive season in Kuala Lumpur, tens and thousands of people find it difficult to get transport to Balik Kampung?

The existing public transport system is just not sufficient to handle the demand.

But did you know of that during the same time approximately 200,000 passenger cars leave Kuala Lumpur either to the north or south and about 20% are Single Occupancy Vehicles, which means the car is empty except for the driver.

That means potentially there are 120,000 vacant seats going to the north and south of Peninsula Malaysia every holiday season (assuming one car can take 3 passengers).

Imagine if all those people who are struggling to find transport, so they can Balik Kampung to see their loved ones, had a way to access and share these unused seats.

Well the wait is over; Tune Travel provides a secure and easy way in which all Malaysians can create travel partnerships be it during festival Balik Kampung or carpooling to work everyday.

Think about it, a car with 2 people in it is twice as efficient, takes up much less road space, uses half the fuel and produces half the pollution as 2 cars with just one driver in each.

Already in Kuala Lumpur during peak hours, the Buses, the LRT, the KTM Commuter and the Roads are all full. So really the only remaining capacity is the empty seats in the Single Occupancy Vehicles that travel to the city everyday.

By creating travel partnerships such as carpooling, we all can save quite a lot of money especially with ever increasing petrol, toll and parking charges. (Check our ourwebsite www.tunetravel.com.my to see how much you can save).

Not only that, if more Malaysians carpool to work surely traffic congestion can be reduced and less time and fuel will be spent travelling to the office during peak hours.

And better yet the fewer cars on the road means less CO2 will be produced and that helps protect the environment as CO2 produced by vehicles is very damaging to the environment.

To illustrate, if you drive a 1.5 litre car 40km to and from work every day, you will produce approximately 2 tonnes of CO2 a year which needs approximately 800 tress to absorb and reconvert into O2 .

It is estimated that 1 tree produces enough O2 for 4 people to survive a year.

So fewer cars on the road, means less fuel used, less money spent, less time wasted, less traffic jams, less stress and more O2 for us to breath.

Imagine the difference we can make. To register please log on to our website at www.tunetravel.com.my

Oops ...This is Car in pool ....not Carpool..




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