Everyone complains about the traffic in Bangalore these days. For that matter, its a chronic problem in every big Indian city. Most of us sit around and complain, and blame the city administration for inadequate planning, not enough roads, poor traffic regulation blah blah.
The folks at maxHeap technologies, co-founded by Lalit Mangal and Sumit Jain (both alums) decided to do something about it. So they created commonfloor.com, a social networking platform for people living in the same apartment complex. (ThinkChange India wrote about a similar site called Indimoto here). I know what you are thinking, ‘oh no, not another social networking web start-up’, right. But, looks like commonfloor.com might have a niche (through India PR Wire):
CommonFloor.com, a product by Bangalore based maxHeap Technologies for modern apartment complexes, has enabled communities in Bangalore and enthusiastic residents to actually find and collaborate with neighbors having same route to work. “We were looking for a way to search and sync with people whom we can carpool with. Now its easy”, say Ankur, who uses CommonFloor.com to connect with neighbors for activities and seeking solutions to day to day problems.
If they could actually get carpooling to work, they should probably get subsidies from the city. It not only reduces the congestion, but also lower the emission levels in an already super-polluted city. Have you carpooled before? Share your experiences by dropping a comment.
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That’s a really interesting solution to the problem of carpooling. The biggest problem when it comes to finding carpools is a proper unified portal…
Can sense the frustration which everyone shares about the manic congestion on our roads. We at Indimoto.com are doing out bit and enabling commuters to find carpool partners across India as a part of our green initiative.
We are also partnering with large organisation for a ‘Corporate Carpool Programme’ which is a CSR activity for them and a win-win situation for all. Do visit us at http://www.indimoto.com to know more about our carpool initiative.
Really a great initiative by guys promoting carpooling in Indian metros.
I found one similar website http://www.carpoolssearch.com
It helped me to get a carpool to and from office. Thanks to carpoolssearch team.
Check out list of carpool providers and seekers in Bangalore at: http://www.carpoolssearch.com/Cities/carpool-bang…
It offers simple registration process and that too without charging a single penny.
Go ahead… register yourself … get a carpool … Go green
Regards,
Shalini
Such wonderful initiatives should be taken more often at different cities. Here’s a list of car-pooling initiatives undertaken in India at the present: http://www.hungrynfoolish.com/2011/10/18/the-ultimate-list-of-car-pooling-initiatives-in-india/ Feel free to add to the list so that we are able to save fuel and money for each one of us.
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