Montreal - Green Life: Time to kick the car habit?

Communauto's aim is ... to reduce pollution and improve city life by getting people to share cars, thus getting as many unnecessary cars as possible off our streets. The service does this quite effectively. A 2006 study estimated each shared Communauto car replaces approximately eight individually owned cars. The average Communauto member - and there are 17,000 in Montreal - reduces his or her average distance driven per year by 2,900 kilometres.This means a reduction of 1.2 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year, on average, per member.