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Rural Carpool is designed to help citizens in small rural areas self-organize carpooling and cost-sharing for occasional trips to larger towns or special events, and for commuters.

Rural Carpool is not like a taxi, Über or Lyft, nor is it like any bus or transit service -- it works where those systems are most challenged by low population density. Rural Carpool simply helps our members self-organize occasional longer trips to larger towns, decreasing the costs for every traveler.

Cumberland Rural Carpool is our second Region (our first Region is the North Shore of Nova Scotia) where we identified most of the region's villages, towns, cities, and travel routes. Then we constructed 115 pretend identities and created thousands of pretend past and future Trips within the region, to help get a sense of how Rural Carpool can work. People looked at the Demo, found it fun and exciting, signed up, and gave us great feedback.

Soon we'll be launching Cumberland Rural Carpool (target date: November 15)! Send an email to marney@cumberlandruralcarpool.com if you're interested in more information, or pre-register so you'll be ready to roll! There are never any costs or obligations for membership.

Cumberland Rural Carpool
Mission Statement

To enable rural travelers
in defined geographic regions
to self-organize, share their trips
to populated centres,
save $$$ and CO2,
and connect communities.

Cumberland Rural Carpool's Current Status:

8/17/2023
Just had a Zoom meeting on the Current Status, and getting the Cumberland Region off the ground! We are aiming for October 1 for the "soft launch," which gives us about six weeks to lay the groundwork, get the word out, gather enthusiastic members, and start to locate regional partners!

Rural Carpool is such a great idea -- we're looking forward to showing what Cumberland can do!
Cumberland Rural Carpool
Region Manager
Marney Simmons
 marney@cumberlandruralcarpool.com

Print Documents:

Cumberland Rural Carpool Tri-fold Brochure (2 pp., PDF)
3 Rules and 4 Tips for Making the Most
of Rural Carpool (8 pp., PDF)

Rural Carpool Video Intro (77 secs)


Rural Carpool In The News:

Pictou Advocate, June 22, 2023:
"Rural Carpool coming to the North Shore," by Jake Boudrot

Truro News/Saltwire, May 17, 2023:
"Developing a rural ride-share platform on the North Shore," by Richard MacKenzie

Rural Carpool Context Video
(8 min 14 secs)
(from when it was still called "Rural RideShare"):


Above: Video overview of Rural Carpool (formerly "Rural RideShare") (8:14), by founder Michael Jensen:
the rural context, a tour of the site itself, and a call to action, encouraging you to Sign Up for the July 14 soft Launch!