The car club, GoCar, now has some 54 GoBases and is supported by a fleet of 62 GoCar vehicles. A total of 10,000 trips has been clocked up in 2013, doubling the company’s initial target of 5,000 trips.
The increase in membership is mainly down to the license granted by Dublin City Council last July to operate on-street from their 30,000 pay-and-display parking spaces which allowed GoCar to place 50 vehicles from 31 pay-and-display locations in convenient locations in the capital, such as Barrow Street, Stoneybatter, Arran Quay, the Docklands, Drumcondra, Rathgar, IFSC, Clontarf and Donnybrook.
Car clubs like GoCar operate in many major European and US cities and the concept is rapidly catching on now in Ireland.
CoGar are hoping to exceed 20,000 trips in 2014 and add more bases across Dublin, including St Stephens Green, UCD and Merrion Square.
