Bonn - Who are the big winners of the rail strike? Taxi companies? Wrong. It is the firm Bonner Europe Medien.
It offers two internet portals, which in recent weeks had huge inflow: mitfahrzentrale.de and pendlernetz.de.
Carpooling is cheaper, better for the environment and relieving the traffic, "said Europe Alive spokesman Javor Milev. Carpooling even use his one million people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Trend: Strongly rising.
During the strike of train drivers who are about twice as many commuters on the sides tumbled as before.
"The typical user is no longer a student with a wool sweater and Birkenstock sandals. We speak to a broad section of the population, "says CEO Martin Buske.
In some rural areas of the Internet are already carpooling more often used as a bus or train. Therefore, the municipalities will pass to cooperate no longer. The city of Bonn in cooperation with the commuter network. But Buske must drill here still thick boards: "The support of the city could be much better."
Buskes knows that he can selbstwusst occur. For: His Carpooling is the mobility concept for the future.
About mitfahrzentrale.de have also Henning Behrens (32) and Anna Maria Rogaleva (met 22). They now go together to Cologne, where he works as an editor and she has to do as an intern at Deutsche Welle often.
Henning Behrens had on the strike mitfahrzentrale.de irritated commuters, offered to wait in vain for a train station on a cold, an alternative: "This is the best and easiest way to do anything about the strike chaos."
And Anna Maria Rogaleva has no car and have no desire to be annoyed constantly of precipitating features. Power together: a perfect carpool.
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