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Web Site of the Week: RideAmigos.com

Locations in this article:  Chicago, IL San Francisco, CA

Traffic Calming DeviceSick of holiday traffic clogging up the streets?

Hate paying for expensive cabs, but aren’t willing to schlep your suitcase on mass transit?

Web-savvy traveler Johnny Jet has the solution for you!

Read on to learn more about our Web site of the week, which has a name to make you want to giddy up and go… and if it saves money and, in a small way, the environment, what’s not to love?

Come on, Ride Amigos!

Do you live in or travel frequently to New York, Chicago, L.A. or San Francisco? If you do, then listen up … especially if you want to save time, money and the environment. A new Web site called RideAmigos.com is for people who want to share a ride to wherever they’re going: the beach, a sporting event, the airport, park, museum, you name it! It can work for one-time only deals or recurring requests.

Here’s how it works: Enter in whatever it is you’re looking for, then search the database. For example, I logged on to the New York City site and did a search, pretending I was looking to share a ride tomorrow morning from the Upper East Side to JFK. Sure enough, someone else was looking to share a ride at 7:45 a.m. So if I were in New York, looking to split cab fare, I could have sent this person an email to co-ordinate a meeting time and place. Ingenious!

Johnny Jet can be found online at www.johnnyjet.com.

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